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When a newborn baby was rescued alive from beneath the rubble in the rebel-held Syrian town of Jandaris after earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria in 2023, her news made headlines worldwide. Some 60,000 people were killed after two powerful earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6 shook south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, 2023. The “miracle baby” born under the rubble was her family’s sole survivor. Now nearly a year old, she was named Afraa after her deceased mother. When rescuers pulled the baby, whose fragile body was bruised and covered with dust, from the rubble o…

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