Syria was also affected by the earthquakes that happened yesterday, in addition to Turkey. The rescue teams have been working tirelessly to extricate residents from the rubble since the first instant they arrived in the earthquake-affected districts.
A group of rescuers were surprised to discover a newborn baby girl still connected to her mother by a cord. The mother appeared to have given birth while being held captive, but neither she nor the rest of her family made it out alive.
In the video, a man holds the dust-covered newborn with the ᴜᴍʙɪʟɪᴄᴀʟ ᴄᴏʀᴅ hanging. The rescuers immediately covered him with a blanket and took the baby to the nearest hospital, where he is being treated.
The user @Talhaofficial01 wrote on Twitter:
“The moment a child was born 👶 Her mother was under the rubble of the earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, and she ᴅɪᴇᴅ after she was born , The earthquake.May God give patience to the people of #Syria and #Turkey and have mercy on the victims of the #earthquake”
The little girl, who arrived at the clinic in a bad condition, is still undergoing ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ but is now stable, pediatrician Hani Maarouf told AFP.
“She had a lot of bruises and lacerations all over her body,” he said. “She also arrived with ʜʏᴘᴏᴛʜᴇʀᴍɪᴀ because of the harsh cold. We had to warm her up and administer calcium.”
Her survival is the latest in a string of stories of children being pulled from the rubble. The ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ toll from the earthquake, which ravaged Syria and neighboring Turkey, soared above 5,000 by Tuesday and is only expected to rise further.
Rescuers continued to trawl through rubble in freezing temperatures in search of survivors after the quake cut a swath of destruction that stretched hundreds of miles through the two countries.
Watch: A Newborn Found Alive In The Rubble After The Turkey – Syria Earthquake
