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Nepal Teen Rescued After 5 Days under Rubble

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A Nepal teenager is alive after being buried for five days under the rubble of last weekend's 7.8-magnitude earthquake.

Crowds in Kathmandu cheered on Thursday as 18-year-old Pemba Tamang was pulled from the wreckage. The teen was rescued after workers heard his cries for help.

"It's what we call an entombment, so he wasn't specifically crushed, but what he was was inside of a box -- a box with heavy concrete all around him," USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team leader Andrew Olvera explained.

"So the USAID teams, what we did, we worked side by side with the local teams and we were there to assist them in getting this victim out," he said.

Olvera called the rescue "amazing," NBC News reports.

"It's what we do, it's what we train for … our firefighters know how to get in there and get to business. When we do this, we have thousands of hours of training for this scenario, and this is the ultimate reward," he said.

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