A newborn baby who was pulled from an earthquake-shattered building in Syria still attached by umbilical cord to her dead mother has been adopted by her aunt and uncle.

Baby Afraa, who was named after her late mother, was the only survivor from her immediate family when the February 6 earthquake destroyed their home in the north-west Syrian town of Jindaris, five miles from the Turkish border.

The baby’s mother had gone into labour shortly after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and died shortly afterwards, alongside the baby’s father and four siblings.

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