The image, taken in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, underscores the scale of the tragedy unfolding in Turkey and Syria, where a rescue effort has become a recovery mission.
A heartbreaking image of a father holding the hand of his deceased daughter trapped beneath a slab of concrete underscores the scale of the tragedy unfolding in Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of the deadly earthquakes.
Elsewhere, residents digging through a collapsed building in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying infant whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried underneath the rubble from thisThe newborn girl’s umbilical cord was still connected to her mother, Afraa Abu Hadiya, who was dead, they said.
The baby’s body temperature had fallen to 35 degrees, and she had bruises, including a large one on her back, but she is in stable condition, Maarouf said. Jinderis, located in the rebel-held enclave of northwest Syria, was hard hit in the quake, with dozens of buildings that collapsed. On Tuesday, Abu Hadiya and the girl’s father Abdullah Turki Mleihan, along with their four other children were laid to rest in a cemetery on the outskirts of Jinderis.Another dramatic rescue was recorded in the town on Monday evening, when a toddler was pulled alive from the wreckage of a collapsed building. Video from the White Helmets, the civil defence group in the region, shows a rescuer digging through crushed concrete amid twisted metal until the little girl, named Nour, appeared.
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