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This is the heartbreaking moment a newborn baby was rescued from the wreckage of a collapsed building in Syria, moments after the girl was born under the rubble.
The footage shows the miraculous baby, just minutes old, being carried to safety in the arms of a rescuer in Jenderes, in a region of north-eastern Syria devastated by yesterday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
But while the girl survived the ordeal, her mother is believed to have tragically died after giving birth.
According to local media, the pregnant mother, displaced from Syria’s Deir Ezzor region, went into labor during the earthquake that has so far killed more than 5,000 people in Turkey and Syria.
The video captures the moment one of several rescuers ran out of the devastated building and carried the tiny baby to safety through a mass of twisted metal, broken concrete and barbed wire.
This is the heartbreaking moment a newborn baby was rescued from the wreckage of a collapsed building in Syria, moments after the girl was born under the rubble.
The footage shows the miraculous baby, just minutes old, being carried to safety in the arms of a rescuer in Jenderes, in a region of north-eastern Syria devastated by yesterday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
Another man runs after him with a dusty green blanket which he then throws at the baby’s rescuer to keep the newborn alive and warm.
A crowd watched as they witnessed a miracle and a tragedy unfold before them.
While the baby is being searched for, the rest of her family is believed to have perished in the quake.
According to the comments to the video, it was filmed in one of the rural areas of Aleppo, which was severely affected by the earthquake that shook both Syria and Turkey on Monday, with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale.
More than 700 people in opposition-controlled Syria and 538 in government-controlled areas of Syria have been killed, according to reports. Skand.
Another earthquake struck Turkey early Tuesday after two others devastated the country and neighboring Syria a day earlier, killing more than 5,000 people and trapping dozens more under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
The 5.8-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 1.2 miles off central Turkey, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said, as rescue efforts continued and the death toll in Turkey alone exceeded 3,400. .
A winter storm bringing freezing temperatures has hampered those desperately working to free people from the rubble of destroyed buildings, and cold weather makes the need to reach trapped survivors even more urgent.
The WHO warned on Monday that the death toll could reach 20,000 and on Tuesday said that 23 million people, including 1.4 million children, could be affected.
Syria’s humanitarian needs were the highest of all, the WHO said.
The video captures the moment one of several rescuers ran out of the devastated building and carried the tiny baby to safety through a mass of twisted metal, broken concrete and barbed wire.
The baby is believed to be alive and well after men scrambled to rescue the newborn from under concrete, glass and barbed wire.
In the hard-hit Turkish city of Hatay, residents screamed helplessly as the screams and screams of those freezing under rubble filled the air. Desperate to reach them in time, rescuers have been digging with their bare hands.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands have been left homeless and sleeping in their cars or seeking temporary accommodation after thousands of buildings were torn down on both sides of the border, sowing misery in an area already ravaged by war, insurgency, the refugee crises and a recent cholera outbreak.
There have been reports on the ground of residents looting supermarkets after running out of food and shelter, while patients at a Turkish government hospital were left to die by fleeing medical staff, according to Sky News.
Even those whose homes were not destroyed by the quake face an uncertain future, with many buildings potentially uninhabitable.
Residents returning to their homes are risking their lives as aftershocks continue to shake the foundations.
A third earthquake struck Turkey early Tuesday after two others devastated the country and neighboring Syria a day earlier, killing at least 4,800 people and trapping dozens more under the rubble of collapsed buildings. Pictured: Baby Ayse Vera and her mother (not seen) are rescued from under the rubble of a collapsed building in Hatay, Turkey, Tuesday morning, more than 24 hours after the first earthquake.
Pictured: An apocalyptic scene in Iskenderun, Turkey, on Monday after the country and neighboring Syria were devastated by a series of earthquakes.
Pictured: A collapsed building in Malatya, Turkey, is seen covered in snow as rescuers carry out search and rescue work on the roof. A winter storm that brought sub-zero temperatures, dipping to -5C overnight in some areas, has hampered those desperately working to free people from the rubble of destroyed buildings.
According to Professor Carlo Doglioni, an Italian seismology expert, the Arabian plate shifted three meters during the earthquake.
The US Geological Survey said Monday’s first magnitude 7.8 quake occurred at 4:17 am (0117 GMT) at a depth of about 11 miles.
The initial quake was so powerful it was felt as far away as Greenland and was followed by a series of more than 200 aftershocks, including a magnitude 7.5 temblor that struck amid search and rescue efforts on Monday.
Another magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck central Turkey on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center said. While not as powerful as the two on Monday, it was recorded at a depth of 1.2 miles. Shallower quakes cause more damage, although it was initially unclear how much damage was caused.
As of 9am GMT, the death toll in Syria stood at 1,602, according to the Syrian government and the White Helmets rescue service in the insurgent-held northwest.
In Turkey, the death toll rose to 3,419 people, Vice President Fuat Oktay he said Tuesday morning, with another 20,534 people injured. That brought the number of people killed in total to 5,102.