Man rescued from rubble after 108 hours

BANGKOK — Rescue workers in Myanmar pulled out a 26-year-old man, alive, from the rubble of a hotel in Nay Pyi Daw early on Wednesday, even as most teams were finding only bodies five days after a massive earthquake hit the country.

Using an endoscopic camera to pinpoint Naing Lin Tun's location in the rubble and confirm that he was alive, the man was gingerly pulled through a hole jackhammered through a floor and loaded onto a gurney nearly 108 hours after he was trapped in the hotel where he worked.

Shirtless and covered in dust, Naing Lin Tun appeared weak but conscious in a video released by the local fire department, as he was fitted with an IV drip and taken away. State-run MRTV reported that the rescue in the capital was carried out by a joint Myanmar-Turkish team and took more than nine hours.