Three children were pulled alive from the rubble, but his wife and at least five of his children died. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JANDARIS, Syria - Naser al-Wakaa kept his family safe through years of war, bombings and air raids untilin Jandaris in north-west Syria, levelling the building and burying his wife and most of his family under the masonry.
“I ran out of the house and said ‘please God, let one survive. I just want one of my kids’,” he said. Rescue workers and residents, sometimes helped by mechanical diggers, dug into ruins to find survivors. From his bed in a hospital near the city of Azaz, the boy said: “My father and I were sitting in the living room when I heard the sound of the earthquake hitting.”
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