Boy, 15, Survives Nepal Earthquake by Drinking Water from Wet Clothes

Two people have been rescued from the rubble of buildings in Kathmandu, five days after an earthquake that killed at least 5,500 in Nepal, BBC reports.

A 15-year-old boy told the BBC he survived by drinking water from wet clothes and eating clarified butter.

Elsewhere, a woman was pulled from a collapsed block where she had been trapped alongside three bodies.

Meanwhile, bad weather is hampering the delivery of relief to remote villages, a Nepali government spokesman said.

The government has been criticised for its response to the disaster.

Outside Kathmandu, the relief effort has relied heavily on helicopters, with mountain roads blocked by landslides triggered by the earthquake.

Laxmi Dhakal, a spokesperson for Nepal’s home ministry, told the BBC that helicopters had been held back by “rainfall and cloudy conditions”.

Rescue teams took 10 hours to rescue the woman, called Krishna, from the ruins of a hostel

In Kathmandu, rescue workers from Nepal and the US worked for hours to free the boy from the rubble of the building.