Six days after the tragic Nepal earthquake, a 15-year-old boy was pulled out alive from the rubble of a residential building in one of the worst-hit areas in Kathmandu.

Inspector Lakshman Basnet, who is from the Nepalese Armed Police Force, said Pemba Tamang did not have any serious injuries and was responsive when they pulled him out, albeit covered by dust. They had worked for five hours to find the boy after hearing his voice from under the rubble.

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Andrew Olvera, the leader of the American disaster team who assisted in the rescue, recounted how his men scrambled to bring search dogs and equipment to locate the teen under the debris. The operation was extremely risky, as large chunks of debris hung dangerously from above, he added.

"It's dangerous, but it's what we do. It's risk versus gain..."Olvera said. "The way the building is, it's definitely a miracle."

Tamang had been staying under the collapsed building for five days. He was saved by a motorcycle which protected him from the falling concrete and steel, Basnet detailed. In addition, the teen was able to stay alive "by good faith."

Rescuers then gave Tamang an IV drip and drove him to a temporary emergency facility operated by an Israeli group.

After the rescue, the U.S. Agency for International Development continued searching the area in the hopes of finding others like Tamang who might have survived Saturday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake.

The said quake took the lives of 6,134 individuals and injured almost 14,000, Nepali authorities said. In India, 72 were reportedly killed by the quake, in addition to the 25 who died in China.

While the chances of finding survivors are become slim, Tamang's joyful rescue served as a ray of hope for others who are still looking for their missing friends and loved ones. Meanwhile, the rescuers said they do not intend to give up searching for more survivors.

The earthquake which struck Haiti in 2010 reset the standard for what people thought was the maximum survival time of earthquake victims, said Olvera. In what was considered as a miraculous rescue, one man was pulled alive from under the debris 27 days after the tragedy.

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