Five days after Nepal’s earthquake, a double miracle has occurred.

A young woman has been pulled from the rubble in Kathmandu just hours after a teenage boy was also plucked from the debris by rescuers.

A teen boy was rescued from a building that collapsed around him in the #NepalEarthquake. http://t.co/6SHa1ZyTTN pic.twitter.com/BRo0Ji7rIV— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 30, 2015


Now being treated at an Israeli field hospital, Pemba Tamang, 15, is recovering remarkably well.

While buried alive, he says he survived by eating from a dish of butter he had discovered in the darkness.

Pemba, now receiving food and fluids, didn’t think he would live.

“Sometimes I felt aftershocks and I could hear the sound of bulldozers,” he said.

“All of a sudden I saw light and I was conscious. I thought I was hallucinating.”

Amid the debris of the mountain village of Katteldada near the epicentre of Saturday’s massive quake, there is growing frustration over the time it is taking