Following the earthquake that killed over 5,000 people in Nepal, a teenage boy has been rescued after surviving for five days in the rubble of a building.
A huge crowd cheered as rescuers brought the boy out of the rubble in the capital, Kathmandu from where he was taken to a field hospital.
The boy, Pemba Lama, eventually emerged blinking into the sunlight, as the crowd cheers.
Pemba Lama was carried away on a stretcher with a blue brace strapped around his neck, and has now been taken to an Israeli-run field hospital.
Andrew Olvera, an official from the US Agency for International Development, earlier told the Associated Press news agency that the boy had been trapped between the collapsed floors of the building but was not “too far down”.
Frustration has been growing in parts of rural Nepal over the pace of relief efforts, with some badly-affected villages yet to receive any assistance.
Survivors in some areas told the BBC that they were angry that neither food nor medicine had reached them.
The UN has however appealed for $415m (£270m) to help provide emergency relief over the next three months.
The UN says more than eight million people have been affected by the 7.8-magnitude quake and some thousands of houses have been destroyed.
Meanwhile, relief materials have begun to reach remote regions near the focal point of the natural disaster, but bad weather is hampering the smooth delivery to remote villages.
The government has been criticised for its response to the disaster.
Outside Kathmandu, the relief effort has relied heavily on helicopters, with mountainous roads blocked by landslides triggered by the earthquake.
Laxmi Dhakal, a Spokesperson for Nepal’s Home Ministry, reported that helicopters loaded with rescue workers and relief materials were ready to fly but had been held back by “rainfall and cloudy conditions”.
