Boy rescued in Kathmandu rubble, aid reaches some remote areas

A family embrace as British nationals arrive at London Stansted Airport on April 30, 2015 after they were evacuated from Nepal following Saturday's earthquake. Around 120 British people were evacuated from quake-hit Nepal on the return journey of a UK aid flight. REUTERS/Niklas Halle'n/Pool

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hundreds of onlookers cheered as rescuers toiling amid the rubble left by Nepal's earthquake pulled a boy to safety on Thursday after he had been trapped for five days, a rare moment of joy for a country struggling to cope with the disaster.

Officials said the chances of finding more survivors were fading as the death toll reached 5,858. But Nepal's Armed Police Force managed to save 15-year-old Pema Lama from the collapsed ruins of Kathmandu's Hilton Hotel."I saw the police drilling for four hours to remove mounds of debris before they could pull him out," said Ambar Giri, a medical worker who was at the scene.