Watch as trapped man pulled from rubble a week after deadly Venezuela earthquake

Rescuers pulled a 44-year-old security guard alive from a collapsed basement of a shopping centre in La Guaira, Venezuela, after he was trapped underground for eight days. Hernán Alberto Gil Flores was extracted safely on Thursday morning after rescuers initially made contact with him over the weekend. Teams carrying flags from across the world cheered as rescuers carried Mr Flores on a stretcher covered in an orange tarp through throngs of people into a Red Cross ambulance. A group of men in red Costa Rican Red Cross uniforms embraced and laughed in relief. Mr Flores, who worked as a night-shift security guard at the complex, was inside his small security cabin when the first violent earthquake struck. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@itvnews?lang=en Follow ITV News on Instagram:   / itvnews   Follow ITV News on Facebook:   / itvnews   Follow ITV News on X:   / itvnews