17 minutes agoThe newborn in Syria's earthquake is adopted by its relatives
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(3 years ago)A baby born under the ruins after the quake involving Syria and the only family member left after the building collapsed was adopted by her aunt's family. Thousands of people have been offered to adopt the newborn, which was still associated with her mother [...]
Thousands of people have been offered to adopt the newborn, which was still bound to her mother through the umbilical cord when she was rescued.
She was released from the hospital after a DNA test by her aunt, writes BBC.
Doctors have said she is in good health.
And she's one of my kids from now on”, said the father who adopted her. I'm not going to be any different to him from the kids of my thousand”
She has already been named after her mother, Afraa. She was just born alive and was named Aya by officials, which in Arabic means miracle.
The video of her rescue has become viral on social networks
Dramatic images show how a man keeps it in his hands. She had been confined to the rubble for over 10 hours and had been taken to the hospital in poor condition.
The building where she and her family lived is one of 50 buildings that were destroyed as a result of a 7.8-degree earthquake in Turkey.
He added that a few days after Afra was born, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Attaa.
While in hospital in the nearby town of Africa, the director's wife has been breastfeeding Afraan.
Judicial officials in Africa had taken over the case of Afraas after the girl attracted international attention and several people came to the hospital claiming they were related to her even though they had different names from Afra and her mother.
For days, al-Sawad was concerned that someone could kidnap him and he often visited him in the hospital.
A hospital official said that Afra was handed over to my aunt's family several days after a DNA test was conducted to ensure that her daughter and aunt were biologically connected.
“This girl means a lot to us, because there is no one left of her family but this baby”, Sawadi told Reuters news agency. “It will be a reminder to me, to her aunt and all our relatives in the village of her mother and father”.
