A miracle puppy who spent five excruciating days buried beneath the earthquake rubble in Venezuela was rescued on Monday, showering her rescuers with affection once she was finally freed.

Emotional footage captured the moment a search and rescue team from El Salvador was able to save the dog named Giselle on Monday in Caraballeda, a city in hard-hit La Guaira state.

Giselle was left trapped when twin 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes hit just 39 seconds apart on Wednesday evening last week, leaving more than 1,900 people dead including at least three Americans.

The dog’s heartwarming first reaction as she was pulled from the ruins was to lick her rescuer and profusely wag her tail before she was given water and checked for injuries.

“After 5 hours, we managed to rescue this little dog who responds to the name Giselle, in Residencial El Palmar, Caraballeda,” Salvadoran president Nayib Buekele said as he shared the video.

“If anyone is her owner, they can approach our teams in the area and prove with photos or videos that she is theirs.”

As the crisis entered it’s sixth day on Tuesday, authorities in Venezuela said the number of those confirmed dead had risen to at least 1,943, with a further 10,571 injured and over 15,000 displaced.

With almost 50,000 people still missing, rescue teams which have poured into the South American country from around the world have said they are running out of time to reach anyone who survived.

The rescue efforts are being carried out by some 30,000 Venezuelan emergency workers and 2,700 foreign experts, including elite teams from the US.

Here’s the latest on the Venezuela earthquakes

Members of the elite USA-01 urban search and rescue team who mobilized from Virginia were able to successfully pull a nine-month-old child and her mother alive from a collapsed building after they were trapped under rubble for nearly three days.

Despite their heroics, viral video footage showed Venezuela’s dreaded socialist interior minister Diosdado Cabello berating a group of American rescuers.

A NASA assessment of satellite images taken before the June 24 earthquakes found that approximately 58,870 buildings were likely damaged or destroyed.

The space agency underlined that it was a “preliminary product produced within days of the event” which had not been corroborated by on-the-ground assessments.