Venezuelan man saved from collapsed mall eight days after earthquakes

<p>Security guard Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, 43, initially told rescuers not to tell his wife in case he did not survive</p><p>A 43-year-old security guard who survived last week’s devastating earthquakes in Venezuela thanks to a pocket of air in his workstation cabin has been pulled from the collapsed basement of a shopping centre amid huge cheers from international rescue teams.</p><p>Hernán Alberto Gil Flores had been trapped for eight days under the rubble of the Galerías Playa Grande in the hard-hit coastal port city of La Guaira since the back-to-back quakes struck.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/02/venezuelan-man-pulled-alive-from-collapsed-basement-eight-days-after-earthquakes">Continue reading...</a>