Syria has released footage of the miraculous moment when guys digging through rubble with their hands-free uncovered a young child while her father attempted to calm her down.
The father is heard telling his daughter Nour, “Don’t be afraid, Dad is here,” as the search and rescue team digs through enormous rocks to extract her from deep underneath.
“Look over to her father,” the White Helmets tell Nour as they carefully lift her from the debris.
In opposition-held Jinderis, north of Aleppo, her father watches as her dust-covered face emerges from the pile.
Other cameras documented the rescue of two other youngsters from the quake’s debris roughly twenty-four hours after the initial tremor.
A young boy and his mother were buried under debris for over twenty hours before being rescued overnight.
The clip shows professionals using headlamps to carefully remove a little infant from a fallen structure in the rain.
The infant is then transferred to the care of other rescuers in Sarmada, northwest Syria.
Due to the war, the family was already internally displaced.
Ahmed, a second young boy, was rescued from the village of Qatma, located north of Aleppo.
As he is removed from the wreckage to receive medical care, he quietly sobs in relief while covered in rubble.
Ahmed was also homeless, and his family’s home had been devastated by the earthquake.
After the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region on Monday morning, rescuers labored through the night in subzero temperatures to locate additional survivors.
A second earthquake of magnitude 7.5 occurred late Monday afternoon, with officials stating that it was not an aftershock.
Many more people are believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings in Turkey and Syria.
Numerous displaced families reside in structures that were already ruined by regular Russian and government airstrikes and are now destroyed by the earthquake.
According to the White Helmets, the situation in the region is “catastrophic.” The territory, centered on the province of Idlib, relies on Turkish assistance for the provision of basic resources, such as food and medical supplies.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric reported that 224 buildings, including humanitarian warehouses, were destroyed and 325 were damaged in northwestern Syria.
