{"id":285317,"date":"2023-02-09T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/02\/09\/sister-was-sleeping-next-to-me-orphaned-syria-boy-saved-after-42-hours\/"},"modified":"2023-02-09T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:28:00","slug":"sister-was-sleeping-next-to-me-orphaned-syria-boy-saved-after-42-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/02\/09\/sister-was-sleeping-next-to-me-orphaned-syria-boy-saved-after-42-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"“Sister Was Sleeping Next To Me”: Orphaned Syria Boy Saved After 42 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rescuers working by torchlight pulled three-year-old Tariq Haidar from the rubble some 42 hours after a devastating earthquake destroyed his family home in the Syrian town of Jandaris. His family couldn’t be saved.<\/p>\n

Orphaned by the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey in the dead of night on Monday, Haidar was brought to a hospital where doctors were forced to amputate his left leg. They are trying to save his right.<\/p>\n

“As soon as he woke up, and saw us in front of him, he asked: ‘Where is Miral?’. We asked ‘Who is Miral?’. He said: ‘My sister, she was sleeping next to me but she wasn’t answering me’,” said Malek Qasida, a nurse caring for him.<\/p>\n

“They pulled out his father and two of his siblings before him, dead,” added Qasida, speaking at the hospital where Haidar was in intensive care, his amputated leg heavily bandaged.<\/p>\n

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The bodies of his mother and a third sibling were recovered from the rubble later, people in the area said. His removal from the wreckage was the latest in a series of eye-catching rescues caught on camera in the areas in Syria and Turkey hit by the earthquake.<\/p>\n

Jandaris was severely damaged by the quake, which has killed at least 1,930 people in rebel-held northwestern Syria, according to rescue workers. The Syrian government says the toll in its part of the fractured country is 1,347.<\/p>\n

The death count in Turkey rose to 16,170 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Syrian civil defence, the rescue service in the northwest, said on Thursday many families remain under the rubble. Qasida said: “There are hundreds of children still under the rubble.”<\/p>\n

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