A 2-week-old baby girl in eastern Turkey was miraculously found alive in the rubble of an apartment building some 48 hours after it collapsed from a devastating earthquake that killed hundreds. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Television footage of the dramatic rescue show an aid worker slithering out of a hole cut into a mountain of debris with the screaming, half-naked newborn, Azra Karaduman, cradled in his arms.
Dozens of rescuers clad in helmets and orange jumpsuits applaud as workers gently pick their way down from the mound of rubble with the child, who sucks air from an oxygen mask covering most of her tiny face.
The baby is passed between several men and woman, wrapped in a blanket and then handed to a medic, who races into the back of a waiting ambulance.
Baby Azra and her mother, Semiha – who was also rescued – were buried in the ruins of a seven-story apartment building in Ercis, a town near the Iranian border that was flattened by the 7.2-magnitude quake.
