(CNN) — According to reports, a newborn girl was pulled from the rubble of her home after Monday’s massive earthquake in northern Syria.
A relative told Agence France-Presse that her umbilical cord was still attached to her mother when she was found. His mother is believed to have died after giving birth.
“We heard a sound while we were digging,” cousin Khalil al-Suwadi told AFP on Tuesday. “We cleared the dust and found the baby with the umbilical cord (intact), so we cut it and my cousins took it to the hospital.”
A newborn girl receives treatment inside an incubator at the city’s children’s hospital in Afrin, Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, February 7, 2023. Gaith Alsayed / Associated Press
A girl who was born amid the rubble caused by Monday’s earthquake is seen inside an incubator at the city’s children’s hospital in Afrin, Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Gaith Alsayed / Associated Press
A Syrian boy watches as a bulldozer cuts through the rubble of a house in which the entire family was killed except for an infant child, in the city of Jandaris, Syria, February 7, 2023. RAMI AL SAID/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The girl is now being treated at a children’s hospital in the city of Afrin, where pediatrician Hani Maarouf told AFP the child was in stable condition but came with scratches, bruises and hypothermia.
According to Suwadi, the girl child is the only survivor in her family. They lived in a five-story apartment building that was razed to the ground by the earthquake.
Syrians mourn for a family and close neighbors who were killed in Haji Iskandar village on February 7, 2023. RAMI AL SAYED/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
A man carries the body of a relative who was killed in an earthquake at a cemetery in the city of Jindris in Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Gaith Alsaid/ Associated Press
