Quake baby gets new life as fresh tremors hit region
Evening Standard|February 21, 2023
A BABY girl born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-hit home in Syria has left hospital to start a new life with her aunt and uncle — as fresh tremors in the region left more people trapped.
Michael Howie
Quake baby gets new life as fresh tremors hit region

The infant was still connected by the umbilical cord to her mother, Afraa Abu Hadiya, who was dead along with her husband and four other children, when she was rescued in the town of Jindayris 10 hours after the 7.8-magnitude quake hit.

Staff at the hospital where she was taken named her Aya — Arabic for “a sign from God” — as her tragic story made headlines around the world.

She was discharged on Saturday and her paternal aunt and uncle have now adopted her and named her Afraa after her mother. “She is one of my children now”, her uncle Khalil al-Sawadi said yesterday.

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