A 15-year-old boy is rescued after nearly five days buried under the rubble.
According to the BBC, a huge crowd cheers as the boy, Pemba Lama, emerges blinking after not seeing real daylight since the earthquake on Saturday.
He is carried away with a brace strapped around his neck, and taken to the IDF’s field hospital in Kathmandu.
He tells the BBC: “There were so many people around me in the rubble. They were screaming.”
A boy saved from the rubble five days after the Nepal earthquake. He survived by eating butter, he says. (Screen capture: BBC)
Meanwhile, a woman by the name of Krishna is pulled out of the rubble by Nepalese soldiers and a huge team of experts from France, Norway and Israel.
She was working in a Kathmandu hostel when the quake struck, BBC reports.
She was trapped in the rubble with the bodies of three people, including her own uncle.
— AFP contributed to this report.
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