CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Tens of thousands of people desperately sought food and shelter in Venezuela on Tuesday after the two earthquakes killed nearly 2,000, but rescue teams managed to pull a 3-year-old boy alive from the rubble six days after the shocks.

Last week’s 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude shocks — one of the worst earthquake disasters in Latin American history — collapsed whole residential complexes, left tens of thousands unaccounted for and prompted frantic search-and-rescue operations for survivors trapped in the ruins.

Hopes were fading fast for more rescues, but nearly a week after the quakes, a Jordanian civil defence team dug the three-year-old boy from the wreckage of a house in Caracas.