The child Tariq Haidar survived the earthquake, but he lost all his family and his left leg
Rescue workers working by flashlights pulled three-year-old Tareq Haidar out of the rubble some 42 hours after the earthquake that destroyed his family’s home in the Syrian town of Jenderes. He was the only survivor of his family.
The child became an orphan because of the earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey and tore the calm of last Monday night.
Haider was taken to hospital, where doctors had to amputate his left leg. They are now trying to save his right leg.
One of the paramedics said: “When he woke up and saw us in front of him, he asked us, ‘Where is Miral?'” The paramedic added, “We asked him, ‘Who is Miral?
“They took out his father and two of his brothers, who were dead before him,” the paramedic added, speaking at the hospital where Haidar was in intensive care.
People in the area said the bodies of his mother and a third brother were later recovered. Pulling him from the wreckage was the latest in a series of eye-catching rescues caught on camera in quake-stricken areas of Syria and Turkey.
Jandires was badly damaged by the earthquake that killed at least 1,930 people in opposition-held northwest Syria, according to rescue workers.