"Miracle": Baby born, orphaned in earthquake rubble now has name
Buried under concrete, Baby Aya still was connected by her umbilical cord to her mother, who had died along with her husband and four other children.
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Buried under concrete, Baby Aya still was connected by her umbilical cord to her mother, who had died along with her husband and four other children.
A Syrian baby girl whose mother gave birth to her while trapped under the rubble of their home during this week's devastating earthquake now has a name: Aya, Arabic for "a sign from God." With her parents and all her siblings killed, her great-uncle will take her in.
<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/syria-orphans-from-quake-taken-in-by-overwhelmed-relatives/"></div>BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian baby girl whose mother gave birth to her while trapped under the rubble of their home during this week’s devastating earthquake now has a name: Aya, Arabic for “a sign from God.” With her parents and all her siblings killed, her great-uncle will take her in. Aya is one of […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below v...
Baby Aya is one of untold numbers of orphans left by the 7.8-magnitude quake and subsequent tremors, which killed more than 20,000 people in Syria and Turkey.
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