It’s nothing less than a miracle! When rescued, she was still connected to her mother by her umbilical cord.
A Syrian baby girl whose mother died after giving birth to her under the rubble of their home during this week’s earthquake now has a name: Aya, Arabic for “a sign from God”.
With her parents and all her siblings killed, her great-uncle, Salah al-Badran, will take her in once she is discharged from the hospital, reports said.
Meanwhile, thousands of people have offered to adopt the baby girl who was born under the rubble of a collapsed building in north-west Syria, following Monday’s earthquake.
Her mother, father and all four of her siblings died after the quake hit the town of Jindayris.
However, his own house in the north-west Syrian town of Jenderis was destroyed, too. He and his family managed to escape the one-storey building, but now he and his household of 11 people are living in a tent.
More than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, though the UN warns the disaster’s full extent is still unclear.
Rescuers are still searching rubble for survivors, but hopes are fading almost 100 hours since the tremors struck.
Freezing conditions threaten the lives of thousands of survivors who are now without shelter, water and food.