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Aunt of Venezuelan boy pulled from rubble tells BBC she will give him 'mother's warmth'
Image caption, AndreÃna Sarmiento says when a friend told her of Kleiber's rescue she fell to the floor and wept, before heading to meet her nephew By Alice Cuddy and Mohamed Madi Reporting from Caracas Published 8 minutes ago 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 by Jordanian rescuers early on Tuesday. Venezuela's interim President Delcy RodrÃguez 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 AndreÃna Sarmiento, told the BBC 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. When a friend phoned AndreÃna 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, Handout Image caption, 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 AndreÃna and immediately said "she Auntie". AndreÃna 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. Everything is very good. All he has are some scratches here on his arms and on his legs, but nothing more," AndreÃna told the BBC with a broad smile. But while she is elated at being reunited with her nephew, AndreÃna said "it hurts because I can't find my sister". âWhen I turned around, nothing was leftâ: One father's search for family after Venezuela quakes Image caption, AndreÃna 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 by her side. "Wherever she went, her son went too. Whatever Kleiber wanted, she would pl
