![]() ![]() She wore her best church dress as she ran along the ground that had gone vertical in an instant.ĭown the street, meanwhile, in a neighborhood of Santa Tecla called Las Colinas, mansions were tumbling from the sky, plunging from their mountain berths in a storm of dust and drama. Nora, my mother-in-law, is 68, a divorcée with a bad leg. What had been level rose like molten concrete waves, so that she went up and down but not forward as she ran toward an open space where only sky was at risk of crashing down. She was returning from a baptism and looking ahead to the afternoon when she heard the bellow and felt the pavement beneath her move. ![]() My mother-in-law was parking her jeep in her carport when it happened. 13, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, the earth parted its jagged jaws and roared. Talk to your dad, talk."Ī rescuer cradled her head in his hands and tenderly wiped dust from around her eyes before she was pulled out.On the morning of Jan. The girl, still half buried, looks up dazedly as they tell her, "Dad is here, don't be scared. Video from the White Helmets, the emergency service in the region, shows a rescuer digging through crushed concrete amid twisted metal until the little girl, named Nour, appeared. The town saw another dramatic rescue Monday evening, when a toddler was pulled alive from the wreckage of a collapsed building. On Tuesday, Abu Hadiya and the girl's father Abdullah Turki Mleihan, along with their four other children were laid to rest in a cemetery on the outskirts of Jinderis.īack inside the town, rescue operations were still ongoing in their building hoping to find survivors. In 2018, the family moved to Jinderis after the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, an umbrella for several insurgent groups, captured the town from U.S.-backed Kurdish led fighters, Sleiman said. They were originally from the village of Khsham in eastern Deir el-Zour province, but left in 2014 after the Islamic State group captured their village, said a relative who identified himself as Saleh al-Badran. Middle East In Turkey and Syria, outdated building methods all but assured disaster from a quakeĪbu Hadiya and her family were among the millions of Syrians who fled to the rebel-held territory from other parts of the country. "After the dust and rocks were removed the girl was found alive." "She was found in front of her mother's legs," he said. Their bodies were found near the building's entrance, said Sleiman, who arrived at the scene just after the newborn was discovered. ![]() When the earthquake hit before dawn on Monday, Abu Hadiya, her husband and four children apparently tried to rush out of their apartment building, but the structure collapsed on them. "Had the girl been left for an hour more, she would have died," he said. If the girl had been born just before the quake, she wouldn't have survived so many hours in the cold, he said. He estimated the baby was born several hours before being found, given the amount her temperature had dropped. The baby's body temperature had fallen to 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) and she had bruises, including a large one on her back, but she is in stable condition, he said.Ību Hadiya must have been conscious during the birth and must have died soon after, Maarouf said. Science Here's what we know about what caused the Turkey earthquake ![]()
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