A woman has given birth to a baby girl in northwest Syria while buried under rubble from the Turkey-Syria earthquake that has devastated the two counties and killed thousands.
Tragically the mother of the newborn child, Afraa Abu Hadiya, passed away after the building they lived in in the small town of Jinderis next to the Turkish border collapsed on Monday.
The baby, who is the only member of the family to have survived the building crash, was discovered with her umbilical cord still connected to her mother. She was found in the midst of the rubble from the collapsed five-storey block of flats 10 hours after the quake hit.
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Rescue workers managed to separate the mother and daughter and the girl was rushed to hospital where she was last night recovering. Doctors said she was bruised but stable.
A video circulating on Twitter appears to show a rescue worker as he saves the newborn from the rubble and rushes to get the child to safety.
Last night, rescue workers spent a second night in the freezing cold as they helped to pull people who had become trapped under the rubble to safety. While many people have been saved, more than 9,600 people have lost their lives so far.
Nearby to Jinderis where the newborn baby was found, five-year-old Ayse Kubra Gunes was pulled from the wreckage of a six-storey building where she lived, telling her father “I’m fine here. I’m fine, Dad” as the workers pulled her to safety. A 15-month-old baby was also pulled from the rubble in the city.
Across the border, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, Mesut Hancer lost his 15-year-old daughter to the earthquake.
World Health Organisation emergencies head Dr Mike Ryan said: “The scale of this disaster requires a sustained response.
“And the secondary impacts are going to go on for months and months, especially for those people already affected, already vulnerable for many other reasons in the region, and especially in Syria.”
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