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 kc, 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 isn'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 hasn'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
4 month old more than three days rishi khanal 22 hours french
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 