Dramatic video showed how rescuers on Monday pulled a man out alive from the rubble of a collapsed hotel following a devastating earthquake that hit the country on Saturday.
The man - hotel administrator Pablo Cordova - managed to call a relative from under the debris of the collapsed building in the coastal city of Portoviejo.
Once he was gingerly removed, he was taken away on a stretcher, his hands waving in the air in a sign of appreciation to cheering onlookers.
A unit of Colombian firefighters helped with the rescue mission.
Ecuador's government said the number of dead had climbed to 413 with more than 2,500 are injured.
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