Newborn Rescued Alive from Venezuela Earthquake Rubble

A newborn baby has been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building 32 hours after twin earthquakes devastated a coastal city in Venezuela.

Footage shared on social media on Friday showed rescue workers searching through the wreckage under floodlights before pulling the infant from the debris to applause in the worst-hit city of La Guaira, north of the capital, Caracas.

The video shows rescuers carefully passing the baby, wrapped in a quilt, from one person to another before gently cleaning the child with tissues.

According to Andreina Quintero, who posted the footage online, the baby was just 18 days old and escaped without injuries despite being trapped beneath the rubble for 32 hours. The child's mother had been rescued about an hour after the infant became trapped.

In a follow-up video posted later on Friday, Quintero showed the mother recovering in a hospital bed, where a medical worker told her that the baby appeared to be unharmed.

The medic suggested the mother may have protected the infant by shielding the child with her own body or another object during the building's collapse.

The back-to-back earthquakes, measuring magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, struck on Wednesday, killing at least 920 people. Thousands more were injured, while many remain missing.