INCREDIBLE stories of survival emerged yesterday as newborn babies were among those hauled alive from the earthquake ruins in Turkey and Syria. Bewildered children with faces caked in dust were lif…
She has had well-wishers from around the world offering to adopt her.
Baby Aya — meaning miracle in Arabic — was still connected to her mother by her umbilical cord when she was pulled from a collapsed building in Jindayris, Syria.Hospital manager Khalid Attiah — who has a four-month-old daughter — said his wife is breastfeeding Aya. He said: “I won’t allow anyone to adopt her. Until her distant family return, I’m treating her like one of my own.”, mum Fatmah Ahmad told how she was abandoned by medics as aftershocks hit the hospital where she had just given birth.Meanwhile, Turkey’s once-prosperous Kahramanmarasş — the city closest to Monday’s quake centre — is slowly and agonisingly giving up its dead.
White sheets are held up to give the deceased some dignity as weeping family members help hoist their loved ones through the rubble. Abdulrahim Atci, 47, gestures at a heap of wood, wrought iron and smashed concrete which was once a block of flats where his uncle Aytural lived.is the hardest-hit city. We are so close to the epicentre.One rescue worker at the scene estimated the death toll there could reach 15,000.Huge amounts of aid is starting to arrive, including tents set up in a stadium in Kahramanmaras.Read More on The Sun
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