War veteran Seán Laidlaw rescued Barrie from under the rubble of an Isil-bombed building in the Syrian city of Raqqa, where she had been stuck for a month. This is the story of how the duo formed an inseparable bond and saved each other's lives.
Seán Laidlaw initially thought he’d heard an injured child. Somewhere under the rubble of an Isil-bombed building in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the sound of mewling escaped. Laidlaw, a bomb disposal expert and veteran of two tours of Afghanistan with the Royal Engineers, was with a small team of other soldiers in February 2018, clearing thousands of Improvised Explosive Devices hidden in the city by so-called Islamic State.
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