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| Baby's rescue rekindles hopes for quake survivors |
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| jaihoon |
| 01/30/01 at 07:40:49 |
| Baby's rescue rekindles hopes for quake survivors Bhuj, India Agencies 30-01-01 The discovery of a living eight-month-old baby – covered in his dead mother's blood but cradled in her lap – yesterday captured the heartbreak and the singular miracles of India's killer earthquake. The rescue was a rare cause for hope following the earthquake, whose damage is now estimated at up to $5.5 billion. India's prime minister acknowledged yesterday that his country was ill-prepared for disasters. In the case of the miracle baby, doctors said the warmth of his mother's body helped him survive three days in the ruins of a collapsed building in Bhuj's Kansara Market. "We saw the baby in the mother's lap, we saw some movement from the baby," said R.K. Thakur, a Border Security Forces assistant commandant. "I took the baby in my hand and I found it was alive." The boy, Murtza Ali, was rushed to a medical centre, surviving relatives were found, and the child was conscious and smiling, Thakur said, adding: "It was miraculous." There are few even partly happy endings in western India these days. |
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