Members of the National Fire Service carrying out search and rescue operations pulled a cat from the rubble of the Italian town of Amatrice almost 16 days after a powerful devastating earthquake of August 24.

As RIA Novosti reported quoting Il Sole 24 Ore, a cat named Pietro spent more than two weeks under the rubble of the house without food, water and fresh air and was rescued on September 8. When firefighters removed the animal, his condition was critical, so the cat was taken to a veterinary clinic of the city of Rieti.