He scrolled throughout the pictures he had of Zyar and remembered the endmost month he noticed him. Mr Safers’ mom had additionally despatched him a up to date photograph of his son to conserve his spirits up.

Then 8 hours of operating similar him, the rescuers controlled to detached one in every of his colleagues.

“I couldn’t breathe at the time. I knew I had to be strong and they were here now and would get me out,” he says.

However along the ease, there have been additionally the ordinary emotions of guilt and disappointment as a result of a accumulation of community had been nonetheless trapped within – and a few had died. The loss of life toll now stands at 32.

After all, then greater than 28 hours below the rubble, Mr Safers was once stored.

“I didn’t get thirsty or hungry. When they offered me water, I took it but my body just didn’t feel like eating or drinking. I don’t why.”

He was ferried to hospital to receive treatment for a cut to his head and a fractured rib.

He still cannot believe how he escaped with so few injuries and was discharged from hospital after just two days.

“It’s superb. I don’t understand how that came about… I’m relieved, I don’t understand how it’s imaginable [to get away with] minimum accidents however I did.”

He is still obviously traumatised and desperately worried about all those he worked with who remain trapped after more than a week. There are 20 people unaccounted for.

Questions now turn to the cause of the accident, and the authorities say an investigation is under way.

Mr Safers says he does no longer keep in mind any indication that one thing could be flawed, however thinks that if it seems that shortcuts had been taken within the building, next community “should be held responsible for the lives lost and the people who may never work or walk again”.