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Chilean rescuers in Beirut cannot confirm or rule out life inside the collapsed building, they hope to reach the point this afternoon

2020-09-04T17:36:52.373Z


After more than 24 hours trying to reach the point where rescue teams detected breathing under the debris left by the explosion in Beirut, the Topos Chile say they cannot confirm ...


Rescueman explains search for survivor in Beirut 1:40

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After more than 24 hours trying to reach the point where rescue teams detected breathing under the rubble left by the explosion in Beirut, Topos Chile say they cannot confirm or rule out that there is life inside the building.


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Francisco Lermanda, leader of the Topos Chile team in Lebanon, explained this Friday that they continue working to achieve this.

“Today we are working on that.

We are in breaking maneuvers, maneuvers to be able to get to the point where we are interested in reaching and today we cannot confirm or rule out life inside the building, ”said Lermanda.

Rescueman explains search for survivor in Beirut 1:40

"Out of respect for the family, out of respect for the people and the Lebanese people, we cannot refer to whether or not there is breathing," said Lermanda and assured that when they have physical evidence that "something or someone" was found, they will communicate it.

The leader of the Chilean rescue team announced that they estimate that around 10:00 pm local time (3:00 pm Miami time), they will reach the point where respiration was detected.

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Naqsha Bibi was rescued after spending two months buried under the rubble left by the earthquake in Pakistan.

In this photo from December, one of her relatives accompanies her as she rests on a hospital bed (Credit: TARIQ MAHMOOD / AFP / Getty Images)

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Rescuers remove the body of a child from the remains of the maternity ward of Hospital Juárez in Mexico City in September 1985. 14 children, three of them newborn, miraculously survived in the rubble for 7 days.

(Credit: JONATHAN UTZ / AFP / Getty Images)

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The Mexican Juana Jazmin Arias (D), a survivor of the earthquake of September 19, 1985, shows, together with her father Miguel Angel Arias, a magazine with photos of the disaster, on September 15, 2005 in Mexico City.

Arias, like 13 other young Mexicans, were rescued from the rubble after the earthquake.

Juana Jazmin Arias was the first of the 14 babies.

(Credit: SUSANA GONZALEZ / AFP / Getty Images)

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Evan Muncie, 28, was found by a debris removal team, as no one was looking for survivors anymore, four weeks after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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Little Sonit Awal was rescued unharmed after spending 22 hours buried in the remains of his collapsed home in Nepal.

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Azra Karaduman, a two-week-old baby, survived 48 hours buried after the October 2011 earthquake in Turkey.

(Credit: ADEM ALTAN / AFP / Getty Images)

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Azra's mother was also trapped and couldn't reach her baby.

Rescuers worked for hours to free her.

The mother and daughter were reunited days later at the hospital.

(Credit: ADEM ALTAN / AFP / Getty Images)

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Source: cnnespanol

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