In one of the most extraordinary survival stories to emerge from the devastating Venezuelan earthquakes, a mother kept her three children alive for eleven days beneath the collapsed OPP building by breastfeeding them until rescuers arrived. Her ordeal has been described as 'a miracle'.
The rescue took place during the final hours of Sunday, when civilian and military rescue teams detected weak calls for help coming from the OPP 26 residential tower in the Caribe sector of Caraballeda, La Guaira. The 12-storey building had collapsed during the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on 24 June. Beneath tons of concrete, rescue workers found a mother and her three children, including a baby.
