U.S. rescuers pull mother and baby alive from Venezuela earthquake rubble

American search-and-rescue teams pulled a mother and her nine-month-old baby alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela after this week’s deadly earthquakes.

Members of USA-01, an urban search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County, Virginia, were working alongside Venezuelan firefighters when they found the mother and child trapped beneath the debris, the team said in a statement.

Both were rescued with only minor injuries. The rescue happened three days after the earthquakes struck Venezuela.

Video released by the U.S. State Department showed rescuers and local firefighters carrying the baby out of the rubble as people at the scene cheered. The State Department said the infant was rescued from beneath the rubble after the earthquake.

The rescue came as international teams continue searching collapsed buildings across northern Venezuela, where two powerful earthquakes have killed at least 1,430 people and injured thousands more.

More than 50,000 people have been reported missing through a public website created after the disaster, though those reports have not been independently verified.

The United Nations said 44 international urban search-and-rescue teams have deployed at the request of the Venezuelan government, bringing 2,245 specialists and 140 search dogs to help extract possible survivors from collapsed structures.

The rescuers include teams from the United States and countries across Latin America, Europe and the Middle East, including Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, France, Germany, Qatar, Syria, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.