Baby pulled safely from under rubble in Nepal
Twenty-two hours after the
massive earthquake that demolished
buildings and killed more than 5,000 people in Nepal, a 4-month-old boy
was rescued from the rubble.
buildings and killed more than 5,000 people in Nepal, a 4-month-old boy
was rescued from the rubble.
The boy, named Sonit Awal, was
buried under the rubble of his family’s house in Bhaktapur, near
Kathmandu, when it collapsed during Saturday’s earthquake. According to a
story in local newspaper Kathmandu Today, translated by the Guardian,
rescuers tried until midnight to extract the baby from bricks and other
debris that had fallen on him during the quake, but were unsuccessful.
The next morning, after the child’s father said he heard the baby crying
throughout the night, the rescue team returned, and by 10 a.m. Sunday,
it finally pulled the child to safety.
Sonit Awal was alive and, the
paper reported, found free of injuries after a visit to Bhaktapur
hospital. Bhaktapur was one of the areas hardest hit by the earthquake
that, as of Wednesday, had killed more than 5,000 people in Nepal. Several rescue teams
have been deployed to the densely-packed residential community — where
mostly brick-and-wood houses and apartment buildings collapsed under the
pressure — and they continue to pull survivors like Sonit from the wreckage.
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