A dead mother and a newborn baby with an umbilical cord were found among the rubble of a collapsed building while more than 2,000 people died in Syria alone due to a major earthquake that hit Turkey and Turkey.
According to AFP and CNN on the 7th (local time), a newborn girl was rescued from the rubble of a 5-story apartment building in Zinderis, a small town in Syria near the border of Turkey, where a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred. The baby, found 10 hours after the earthquake, was said to be crying with the umbilical cord still intact.
Video from the rescue posted on Twitter shows a man carrying a baby and running quickly over the rubble of a building. The baby, dusty from head to toe, has limp limbs. Another man threw a blanket at the man running as if to wrap the baby.
Capture from Twitter ‘@Muhammad Smiry’ The baby’s mother, Afra Abu Hadiya, is believed to have died shortly after giving birth. His relative, Ramadan Sleiman, told the Associated Press that the baby was the only survivor of his family. All other family members, including Hadiya’s husband, four children, and Hadiya’s younger sister, are said to have died.
After Hadiya’s neighbor, a woman, cut the baby’s umbilical cord, other residents took the baby to a children’s hospital in a nearby village. “The baby had bruises, lacerations and a hypothermia of 35 degrees when she arrived at the hospital, but is now in stable condition,” said doctor Hanimaruf.
“Based on the body temperature, it seems that the baby was born a few hours before the discovery, that is, after the earthquake,” said Marouf. If he was born right before the earthquake, he probably wouldn’t have survived the cold for long.”
The baby’s weight is 3.175 kg, which is the average level for a newborn, Marouf said. He said, “It seems that the baby was born almost the entire pregnancy.”
Meanwhile, in Syria, the death toll from the earthquake exceeded 1,900. In both government and rebel-controlled areas, 1,932 people were killed and over 4,000 were injured. The number of casualties is expected to rise as rescue operations are delayed due to continuing aftershocks and bad weather.
Source: Donga
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