On Friday, paramedics pulled a six-year-old boy alive from the rubble of his home in the northwestern Syrian border town of Jenderes, about five days after the devastating earthquake, according to an AFP correspondent. Musa Hamidi was wounded in the head and arm, and his eyes appeared to be swollen.
Medics wrapped white bandages around his head and right arm. The French agency indicated that his correspondent met him after he was pulled out of the rubble at 8 am (0600 GMT) while standing in a pink jacket in front of piles of stones left by the rubble. . Rescuers continue to search for the rest of the child’s family. One of his brothers recovered, but he died.
A correspondent for a French news agency met him after he was pulled out of the rubble at eight in the morning, to the applause of the residents.
Abu Bakr Muhammad, one of the civilians who participated in the Musa rescue operation, said: “On the fifth day after the earthquake, Musa was pulled out of the rubble, and he had minor injuries, and his brother died, and the rest of his family is still is under the rubble, and nothing is known about them yet.”
According to Syrian official media, in the heavily damaged city of Jable in the province of Latakia in the west of the country, rescue teams pulled two people alive from the rubble of a completely collapsed building.
And Jandiris, a border town with Turkey, was severely hit by a devastating earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey at dawn on Monday, killing more than 22,300 people in the two countries, including more than 3,300 in Syria.
