“Everybody has
been wanting a miracle. Well a miracle has happened,” said Premier of the
Western Cape Alan Winde in a video posted by Algoa FM News on X.
Head of
Disaster Management in the Western Cape, Colin Deiner explained that they had
spoken to the survivor, who had been trapped with heavy weight from the
concrete slabs bearing down on his lower body.
While medical
services personnel moved onto the site, Deiner said Gabriel constantly asked
for some water as doctors examined him.
It came to
light that he was a tiler and he had been found on what seemed to be the third
floor of the five-storey building.
Rescue workers
cried and embraced one another when Gabriel was safely brought to the surface
and loaded into an ambulance on site.
People could be
heard shouting "My God is a miracle worker" and "Our God is
alive" when the ambulance made haste to a nearby hospital.
Western Cape
Health MEC Nomafrench Mabombo later said she was with Gabriel in the ambulance.
"Today we
have witnessed a miracle. He was taken to hospital with no scratches and there
was no blood on him."
SAPS released a
statement stating that Warrant Officer Willie Visser and sniffer dog, Abbey,
led the rescue team to Gabriel.
Police
spokesperson Sergeant Chris Spies said Abbey was assisted by her partner, SAPS
sniffer dog, Lex, and handler Warrant Officer Riaan Le Roux.
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