{"id":2894,"date":"2023-02-09T05:56:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2023-02-09T05:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:56:56","slug":"turkey-syria-earthquake-newborn-baby-pulled-from-collapsed-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2894","title":{"rendered":"Turkey-Syria earthquake: Newborn baby pulled from collapsed building"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A newborn girl has been saved by rescuers from beneath the rubble of a building in north-west Syria that was destroyed by an earthquake on Monday.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Her mother went into labour soon after the disaster and gave birth before she died, a relative said. Her father, four siblings and an aunt were also killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dramatic footage showed a man carrying the baby, covered in dust, after she was pulled from debris in Jindayris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A doctor at a hospital in nearby Afrin said she was now in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The building in which her family lived was one of about 50 reportedly destroyed by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Jindayris, an opposition-held town in Idlib province that is close to the Turkish border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The baby’s uncle, Khalil al-Suwadi, said relatives had rushed to the scene when they learned of the collapse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We heard a voice while we were digging,” he told AFP news agency on Tuesday. “We cleared the dust and found the baby with the umbilical cord [intact], so we cut it and my cousin took her to hospital.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Paediatrician Hani Maarouf said the baby had arrived at his hospital in a bad condition, with “several bruises and lacerations over all her body”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“She also arrived with hypothermia because of the harsh cold. We had to warm her up and administer calcium,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She was photographed lying in an incubator and connected to a drip, as a joint funeral was held for her mother Afraa, father Abdullah and her four siblings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They are among 1,800 people known to have been killed by the earthquake in Syria, according to the Damascus-based government and the White Helmets, whose volunteer first responders operate in opposition-held areas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Another 4,500 people have been killed in Turkey, where the epicentre was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The White Helmets have so far reported 1,020 deaths, but they have warned that figure is expected to “rise dramatically”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Time is running out. Hundreds still trapped under the rubble. Every second could mean saving a life,” they tweeted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We appeal to all humanitarian organisations and international bodies to provide material support and assistance to organisations responding to this disaster.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The UN has vowed to use “any and all means” possible to get aid to people in the north-west, but it has said that deliveries have been halted temporarily due to damaged roads and other logistical issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It has also urged governments not to politicise aid delivery when so many are in desperate need.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A UN Security Council agreement authorises the use of just one border crossing for deliveries from Turkey into the north-west. All other deliveries are meant to go via Damascus, although in the past the government has facilitated only a small amount of “cross-line” aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Even before the earthquake struck, 4.1 million people in the north-west – most of them women and children – were relying on humanitarian aid to survive.<\/p>\n

SOURCE BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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