Five days after Nepal’s earthquake, a double miracle has occurred.
A young woman has been pulled from the rubble in Kathmandu just hours after a teenage boy was also plucked from the debris by rescuers.
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Now being treated at an Israeli field hospital, Pemba Tamang, 15, is recovering remarkably well.
While buried alive, he says he survived by eating from a dish of butter he had discovered in the darkness.
Pemba, now receiving food and fluids, didn’t think he would live.
“Sometimes I felt aftershocks and I could hear the sound of bulldozers,” he said.
“All of a sudden I saw light and I was conscious. I thought I was hallucinating.”
Amid the debris of the mountain village of Katteldada near the epicentre of Saturday’s massive quake, there is growing frustration over the time it is taking