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

Here is the latest breaking news from around the world: Aunt of Venezuelan boy pulled from rubble tells she will give him 'mother's warmth'Image caption, Andreína Sarmiento says when a friend told her of Kleiber's rescue she fell to the floor and wept, before heading to meet her nephewByAlice Cuddy and Mohamed MadiReporting fromCaracasPublished17 minutes agoThe aunt of a two-year-old boy who was rescued after six days under rubble in Venezuela has spoken to the 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 by Jordanian rescuers early on Tuesday. 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.

The boy's aunt, 23-year-old Andreína Sarmiento, told the she would "take care of Kleiber with a mother's warmth until my sister appears, which is what we long for". "I'm praying a lot to God to give me strength because he is only two years old and I am not a mother," she said, sitting at Kleiber's bedside and holding his hand in a hospital in the capital Caracas. "It hurts me a lot because my sister always used to tell me that he is my son, and now it's like she's handing him over to me and saying 'this is your son, he is your responsibility,'" she said.

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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. Image source, HandoutImage caption, Kleiber is seen in this family photo with his mother Ana Luz and father Carlos, who are both still missingWhen 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.

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Everything is very good. All he has are some scratches here on his arms and on his legs, but nothing more," Andreína told the 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 Image caption, Andreína and her older sister, Kleiber's mother Ana LuzShe said she and 31-year-old Ana Luz were extremely close and would talk every day on video calls. Her sister always had Kleiber by her side.

The story has become one of the most prominent items on the global agenda.