Kathmandu , Nepal ( CNN ) Rescuers in Nepal have pulled a man from the wreckage of a building where he was stuck for a staggering 82 hours after the devastating earthquake that hit the country Saturday . His survival is unusual , as experts say it 's rare for injured people who are trapped to hold out for longer than 72 hours after a disaster . The man , Rishi Khanal , was saved after a French search and rescue team found him under the rubble on the outskirts of Kathmandu , the capital , around noon Tuesday , said Pushparam K.C. , a spokesman for the Armed Police Force of Nepal . The team used specialized gear that detects signs of life , he said . But it took about 10 more hours for the French team and police officers to dig him out , the spokesman said . A police video of the rescue showed the teams drilling through concrete to reach Khanal 's location and then hauling him up through the hole . They then carried him out of the ruined building on a stretcher . On Wednesday afternoon , Khanal , 27 , had just undergone surgery and was resting , surrounded by family and friends . He had suffered a crushed foot and was too weak and distraught to talk about his traumatic experience . `` It seems he survived by sheer willpower , '' said Akhilesh Shrestha , a doctor who treated Khanal , according to the Reuters news agency . Khanal 's story of survival is n't the only one to emerge from the terrible destruction wrought by the quake , which has killed more than 5,000 people . A 4-month-old baby was rescued from a destroyed building in the town of Bhaktapur at least 22 hours after the quake struck , the newspaper Kathmandu Today reported . A Nepali military team had failed to notice the child during its search but returned after his cry was heard , the newspaper said . The little boy , whose name is Sonit Awal , was reported to be in stable condition without any internal injuries , according to initial examinations . CNN has n't independently confirmed Sonit 's rescue , but the newspaper published photos showing the dust-caked infant being lifted by Nepali soldiers in the ruined structure . Tanka Maya Sitoula , a 40-year-old mother of four , was at home in Kathmandu when the earthquake shook the city , bringing the five-story building down around her ground-floor apartment . She endured 36 long hours trapped in a room before an Indian rescue team freed her . She escaped without injury , apparently protected by a beam . Sitoula says she remained confident she would survive amid the rubble . `` I heard people making noise outside , so I thought I would be rescued , '' she said , as she and her family sheltered on the grounds of a nearby school . What did she do for 36 hours ? `` I was just lying down , '' she said . `` There was no room to move here and there . '' Sitoula 's husband , Mahendra , a butcher , said he called out for help for hours after the quake , as he could hear her shouting in the rubble of the collapsed building . It took 18 hours before the necessary help arrived , he said . And it took another 18 hours to free her . Jon Keisi was buried for more than 60 hours under the wreckage of a seven-story building in Kathmandu that came tumbling down around him during the quake . Rescue workers flown in from Turkey had to help carve a tunnel deep into the debris to reach him . Encased in an orange stretcher , he was lifted to safety Tuesday . But he cried out in pain after his rescuers set him down , shaking his head from side to side . One of the hard-hat-wearing search team members that crowded around him called for water . Keisi was injured and dehydrated , but the rescuers said they were confident he would survive . CNN 's Elizabeth Joseph reported from Kathmandu , and CNN 's Jethro Mullen wrote from Hong Kong . CNN 's Moni Basu , Manesh Shrestha , Ivan Watson , Tim Hume and Pamela Boykoff contributed to this report .
A French rescue team finds Rishi Khanal more than three days after the quake . A 4-month-old baby is reported to have been rescued after 22 hours in rubble .