Shell-shocked Musa Hmeidi is pulled from under the wreckage of a crumpled building to cheers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JINDAYRIS, Syria - Rescuers pulled three people, including a six-year-old, alive from the rubble in Syria on Friday, four days afterin Syria and neighbouring Turkey, an AFP correspondent and state media reported.
In the government-held town of Jableh, emergency teams pulled two people alive from under the rubble, state media said. The little boy’s bruised face was covered in bandages after medics gave him first aid on the spot in Jindayris, one of a string of rebel-held towns that was heavily damaged by Monday’s quake.
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