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Hernán Gil
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A security guard who was rescued after being trapped for eight days under rubble following twin earthquakes in Venezuela.
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Hernán Gil was trapped under a collapsed multi-storey car park, and encouraged them as they inched closer to him.
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Emergency workers managed to free Hernán Gil more than 100 hours after they had first located him under 140 tonnes of rubble.
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