Venezuelan man saved from collapsed mall eight days after earthquakes

Security guard Hernan Alberto Gil Flores, 43, initially told rescuers not to tell his wife in case he did not survive

A 43-year-old security guard who survived last week's devastating earthquakes in Venezuela thanks to a pocket of air in his workstation cabin has been pulled from the collapsed basement of a shopping centre amid huge cheers from international rescue teams.

Hernan Alberto Gil Flores had been trapped for eight days under the rubble of the Galerias Playa Grande in the hard-hit coastal port city of La Guaira since the back-to-back quakes struck.