PHOTOS: Boy, 15, rescued 5 days after earthquake

Thursday, April 30, 2015
Pemba Tamang is carried on a stretcher after being freed from rubble five days after the earthquake struck Nepal.
Pemba Tamang is carried on a stretcher after being freed from rubble five days after the earthquake struck Nepal.
A U.S. doctor attends to Pemba Tamang inside an ambulance after he was rescued.
US rescuer workers, wearing yellow helmets, plan as they and Nepal policemen prepare to pull out Pemba Tamang.
Nepalese policemen cheer.
People watch as rescue workers prepare to pull out Pemba Tamang from the rubble of a building five days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Pemba Tamang is carried on a stretcher after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and U.S. rescue workers from a building that collapsed five days ago in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Pemba Tamang, 15, recovers at the Israeli field hospital for earthquake victims after being rescued in an operation led by a Nepalese team with American responders.
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PHOTOS: Boy, 15, rescued 5 days after earthquake Pemba Tamang is carried on a stretcher after being freed from rubble five days after the earthquake struck Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Pemba Tamang, 15, spent five days in the rubble of a seven-story building following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. He was rescued by a Nepalese team and American responders with the US Agency for International Development on April 30, 2015.