KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A long-absent noise - cheers - rang out in Nepal's capital Thursday as rescuers pulled a teenager alive from the earthquake rubble he had been trapped in for five days. A woman was rescued hours later. The joy interrupted a dreary and still fearful day in which thousands worried about aftershocks lined up to board free buses to their rural hometowns.
Pemba Tamang was carried out on a stretcher, his face was covered in dust. Medics had put an IV drip into his arm and a blue brace had been placed around his neck. He appeared stunned, and his eyes blinked in the sunlight.
Nepalese rescuers, with support from an American disaster response team, had been working for hours to free Tamang, 15.
Editor's Note: A family member earlier told CBS News that Tamang went by the name Pemba Lama and gave his age as 17. Tamang himself has since confirmed his name and age to CBS News at a field hospital in Kathmandu.
On Thursday evening, police in Kathmandu said a woman in her 20s, Krishna Devi Khadka, was rescued from earthquake rubble in another location. She had been trapped in an area near Kathmandu's main bus terminal where there are lots of hotels, said a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to media.
CBS News correspondent Seth Doane and his team were there when Tamang was pulled out. Doane said it was controlled chaos as rescuers from the Los Angeles County Urban Search and Rescue, Fairfax County, Virginia, Nepalese teams and crews from around the world quickly reacted upon hearing a voice from within the rubble heap.