Rescuers were calling it a miracle that a teenager was found alive after five days buried under rubble in Nepal.

Pemba Tamang, 15, was buried under the rubble of a seven-story building in the capital of Kathmandu since Sunday when the structure collapsed during the main earthquake.  He was described as “dazed and dusty.”

Tamang was alert and able to speak with rescuers as he was lifted from the rubble on a stretcher.

“He thanked me when I first approached him,” police officer L.B. Basnet told reporters. “He told me his name, his address, and I gave him some water. I assured him we were near to him.”

Tamang told the AP he had been working in the building when it fell and that he survived by eating a form of butter.

Residents in the area have been nervous about entering buildings as aftershocks continue to shake the region.  Scientists say that 70 aftershocks have struck since the main quake.

“It’s getting back to normal, but we’re still feeling aftershocks. It still doesn’t feel safe,” said Prabhu Dutta, a 27-year-old banker from Kathmandu.

The rescue of Tamang was a high point to start the day for the rescuers who ended on a high note as well when they pulled a young woman in her 20s from a building near Kathmandu’s bus terminals.

Krishna Devi Khadka has not yet spoken with the media.

Police say the death toll is now officially 5,858 not counting anyone who died on Mount Everest.