This is the remarkable moment an 11-year-old boy is pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Venezuela, days after a pair of earthquakes devastated the country. 

Footage shared by interim president Delcy Rodríguez showed a huge team of emergency workers coming down from a pile of rubble with the young boy on their shoulders. 

Others were seen wheeling a stretcher over to him, placing the child on it to attend to him. 

Rodríguez said in her post to social media: 'A short while ago, an 11-year-old boy was rescued alive in Caraballeda. In these hours, every life is hope for Venezuela.' 

Venezuela was devastated by the two earthquakes, which had magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, on June 24. 

Top lawmaker Jorge Rodríguez has called it 'the most disastrous event' the country has suffered in the last 123 years. Officials say the death toll is now at 1,430, while 3,238 people were injured. 

Whole swathes of towns and cities across the country were reduced to rubble. An estimated 3,100 families are said to be in shelters. 

Amid the horrors seen in Venezuela, stories of hope emerged. 

A newborn baby was pulled out alive from beneath the rubble of a collapsed building after being trapped for 32 hours in the aftermath of the quakes.  

Footage shows the moment rescuers in the city of La Guaira - which has been declared a disaster zone - moved the baby away from the debris and handed it over to a man, who appeared to be the father.

The infant's mother was also pulled alive from the rubble, according to AFP.

Despite this, the government's reaction to the crisis has been met with fury. During a visit Rodriguez made to a Caracas neighbourhood that was all but razed to the ground, residents voiced their anger. 

Many screamed at her: 'The government isn't doing anything for the people.'

Others said: 'Get out! Get out!'  

International rescue teams have flocked to Venezuela to boost a desperate and slow-moving search for survivors.

The coastal area of La Guaira, near the capital Caracas, was the worst hit, with one building after another crumpled by the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes.

Authorities announced on Friday night that they would block access to La Guaira, the epicentre of the destruction, as chaos and traffic were hampering search efforts.

Officials said anyone who wants to enter would now have to seek official permits, but provided few details of who would be allowed in.

More than 14,000 members of the military and police are patrolling the area, Rodríguez said on state television Saturday.

It has emerged that a footballer's wife was killed in the devastating earthquakes as she acted to save the life of her one-year-old daughter. 

Rescuers found Andrea Bello's body among the rubble, but her daughter, Alana, survived following her mother's efforts to shield her during their home's collapse.

In raw social media posts, husband Hector Bello, a defender for Venezuela's second division side Marítimo de La Guaira, shared his heartbreak, saying: 'You left us alone in the night, mummy. You left me all alone with our daughter.

'Andrea, how do I explain to your daughter that you lost your life to save hers and I wasn't there in that moment to do anything? How do I explain? Give me strength now because I can't take any more.'

The UN humanitarian agency OCHA said search and rescue teams from at least 17 countries were being mobilised to help find survivors.

Spanish, Salvadoran, Swiss, Colombian, and Mexican rescue teams were already on the ground, while a British team has also been deployed.

But this specialist UK team of British crisis-response volunteers has been stuck in Madrid airport for more than 24 hours.

Serve On, a UK-based charity, has a team of 11 people and one dog trying to get to Venezuela's capital, Caracas. 

The team possesses seismic and acoustic equipment that can sense movement of deeply buried victims, and their team leader, Vernon Young, told the Press Association they are desperate to get out to Venezuela 'as soon as possible'.

However, Simon Bolivar International Airport, the only international airport that serves Caracas, was also ravaged by the earthquakes, so travel into the country is 'severely affected'.

Mr Young, 57, who has responded to disasters in the British Virgin Islands, Turkey and Syria during 14 years volunteering for Serve On, said: 'These things are always time critical. We're a light team and can move quickly. The sooner you get there, the more chance you have of saving lives.

'Every situation is different, in Turkey they were pulling live victims out 14 days after the earthquake. We hope we can get out there and make a difference.

'We're a technical rescue team and can potentially find deeply entombed victims just by their movement. We still believe we will make a decent contribution if we get there in the next day or two.

'The British Government Fire Service Team are en route now, they're a heavy team with 68 people and we've got links with them. But we don't hear much (from Venezuela), we don't know how they're doing.'

Given there are no direct flights from the UK to Venezuela, the team has been at Madrid Airport since 9pm on Friday, after connecting flights from Istanbul were cancelled.

Flights from Madrid have also been cancelled, leaving the volunteers stranded due to their reliance on civilian transport.

Mr Young, who is Serve On's international operations lead and training lead on top of his job as a construction project manager, added: 'We've been reaching out to any other type of flights, military flights and lots of different ways.

'We have 11 out in deployment but twice that back in the UK working really hard to try to help us get there. We're not alone – there's a French team and two Spanish teams facing the same problems.

'We've been in contact with the Government and we know they're doing all they can, we have evidence of that. They're out to help us.

'It's the saving lives aspect that motivates me. Serve On as an organisation has proved we can affect people's lives deeply by saving people.

'We all understand that things are difficult, we're frustrated and we want to be out there now.'

Matt Hasdell, a 24-year-old volunteer in the team, said: 'It's escalated quite quickly.

'There's been a lot of logistics and making contact with other international teams and finding out different ways into the country.

'We don't have infinite money, so it's trying to manage our finances. Our priority is to go into the dangerous zone and save as many lives as possible.

'Our team has been working as hard as possible to get us on the ground.'