Newborn pulled from earthquake rubble adopted by aunt and uncle
after a devastating earthquake toppled her home and killed her entire immediate family has been adopted by her aunt and uncle — and named to honor her late mother.
Her aunt and uncle gave her the name Afraa, after her late mother. When she first arrived at the hospital, theKhalil al-Sawadi identified baby Afraa’s mother as deceased and quickly realized the newborn was alive and stuck under the rubble.“She is one of my children now,” her uncle and adoptive father Khalil al-Sawadi told the Associated Press. “I will not differentiate between her and my children.
Sawadi had been called to identify a dead woman, his wife’s cousin Afraa, when they discovered the newborn. Sawadi said he took a razor from his pocket to cut the umbilical cord before handing the child to another cousin who rushed her to the hospital.
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