A newborn baby girl has been pulled alive from the rubble of a home in northern Syria, after relatives found her still tied by her umbilical cord to her mother, who died in Monday’s massive earthquake.
According to a relative, Khalil al-Suwadi, the infant is the only member of her immediate family who survived the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that destroyed the family home in the rebel-held town of Jindayris in Syria and Turkey.
Suwadi told AFP on Tuesday that while they were digging, they heard a voice.
"We cleared the dust and discovered the baby with the umbilical cord, so we cut it and took her to the hospital with my cousin,"
On social media, the rescue video went viral.
A man is captured sprinting from the rubble of a four-story building that has collapsed while holding a tiny baby that is covered in dust.
While a third man screams for a car to take the newborn to the hospital, a second man runs toward the first with a blanket to try to warm the baby in the subzero temperatures.
The baby was taken to the nearby town of Afrin for treatment, and her father, Abdullah, mother, Afraa, four siblings, and an aunt's bodies were recovered over the next few hours.
Before Tuesday's joint funeral, their bodies were laid out on the floor of a relative's house nearby.
Suwadi listed the names of the dead bodies as he stood in the dimly lit room and stared at them.
We have been expelled from Deir Ezzor, an eastern city held by the government. I am married to Abdullah's sister, and he is my cousin,” he stated.
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