JANDARIS — 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. Orphaned by the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey in the dead of night on Monday (Feb 6), Haidar was brought to a hospital where...
Tariq Haidar, a three-year-old boy who was rescued from under the rubble after a devastating earthquake destroyed his family home in the town of Jandaris, receives treatment inside a hospital where doctors were forced to amputate his left leg, in Afrin, Syria on Feb 9, 2023.JANDARIS — Rescuers working by torchlight pulled three-year-old Tariq Haidar from the rubble some 42 hours after adestroyed his family home in the Syrian town of Jandaris. His family couldn't be saved.
"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.
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