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Aunt of Venezuelan boy pulled from rubble tells BBC she will give him 'mother's warmth'

This video can not be played Andreína Sarmiento tells the BBC she fell to the floor and wept when she heard Kleiber had been rescued The aunt of a two-year-old boy who was rescued after six days under rubble in Venezuela has spoken to the BBC of her elation at being reunited with her nephew and her hopes that his parents might still be found. Kleiber Moran was pulled from the rubble of his home in Venezuela's northern La Guaira state . Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez has described the rescue as a "source of hope for our people" as the death toll from two major earthquakes last Wednesday continues to rise. When a friend phoned Andreína from La Guaira to tell her of Kleiber's rescue she fell to the floor and screamed and wept, before heading to meet him. She said rescuers from the UK had also tried to reach him before the Jordanian team's efforts were successful. Kleiber is seen in this family photo with his mother Ana Luz and father Carlos, who are both still missing When the two were reunited, Kleiber looked at Andreína and immediately said "she Auntie". Andreína said Kleiber was in a "state of shock, screaming and screaming" when he arrived at the hospital. But he slept through the night and by Wednesday "he had stabilised". She said that "today he's giving me little kisses, he talks to me, he tells me where it hurts". As she spoke, Kleiber lay next to her, wrapped in a Spiderman blanket and surrounded by toys, pushing a small car around the bed. He was in a ward with other children who had also survived the earthquakes. "He doesn't even have a single fracture. All he has are some scratches here on his arms and on his legs, but nothing more," Andreína told the BBC with a broad smile. But while she is elated at being reunited with her nephew, Andreína said "it hurts because I can't find my sister". ‘When I turned around, nothing was left’: One father's search for family after Venezuela quakes Andreína and her older sister, Kleiber's mother Ana Luz She said she and 31-year-old Ana Luz were extremely close and would talk every day on video calls. Her sister always had Kleiber . "Wherever she went, her son went too. Whatever Kleiber wanted, she would please him.

Original story by BBC Americas View original source

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