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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA baby was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed residential building in Cali, Colombia, nearly 48 hours after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the country, as rescuers entered the third day of search operations on Wednesday. The infant was found along with a trapped man after a faint voice from beneath the debris alerted rescuers to their presence.The dramatic rescue took place at the La Torres del Limonar residential complex, a five-storey building that collapsed after Monday\u2019s earthquake. Brian Osorio Zuluaga, who was returning home on his motorbike after fleeing his office in Cali, stopped when he saw the building reduced to rubble.He approached the wreckage and began calling out for survivors, despite warnings of a possible gas leak. He then asked everyone around him to remain silent. A faint sound emerged from the debris, almost like a whisper, CNN reported.\u201cYes, I\u2019m here. I\u2019m with a baby,\u201d a man\u2019s voice said.Osorio and other volunteers immediately began clearing the rubble by hand to reach the pair. Their path, however, was blocked by a large concrete slab.\u201cOn the first attempt, we couldn\u2019t lift it,\u201d he said. Then, \u201cwe all lifted together \u2014 one, two, three, up.\u201dThe rescuers held the heavy slab aloft while others cleared a path towards the infant. Osorio said the baby\u2019s head appeared purplish because he was struggling to breathe.\u201cYou can see the baby\u2019s little head there \u2014 which, at the time, looked sort of purplish because he couldn\u2019t breathe,\u201d the CNN news report quoted Osorio saying. \u201cOnce we started removing the rubble, the baby began to\u2026 breathe, and his color started to come back.\u201dVideo showed the baby, covered in dust, being carefully pulled from the wreckage. A man with a bloodied arm could be seen lying on his side, still partially trapped beneath a concrete plank.Osorio said he was handed the baby and passed him to a police officer, who took the infant to an ambulance. Rescuers then turned their attention to freeing the trapped man.The 7.4-magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit Colombia in more than a decade. The powerful tremor struck western Colombia on Monday, killing more than 200 people.<\/div>\n