A relative adopts the baby who was born in the rubble after the earthquake in Syria

BEIRUT, 21 Feb. (DPA/EP) –

The baby who was born under the rubble of a collapsed building after the earthquake in Syria has been adopted by her aunt and is now with her new family.

The girl, nicknamed “miracle baby” on social networks, was rescued alive after the earthquake on February 6, in which her parents and four siblings died.

According to rescue teams, when she was found she was still attached to her mother through the umbilical cord. Hers It is her maternal aunt, Hala, who has now taken care of her, after confirming her relationship.

The director of the hospital where she was being treated, Dr. Jalil Sawadi, confirmed to the DPA agency that “the judicial authorities took her two days ago and handed her over to her aunt after confirming her relationship with a DNA test.” He has also assured that the girl is in good health.

Her aunt’s husband, Jalil Sawadi, explained to the agency that he will take in the girl: “She will be like my daughter, I will do anything for her, and she will be my seventh daughter.” The couple also recently had a daughter, just three days after the earthquake.

The girl, named Aya by the hospital staff who treated her and renamed Afraa, after her mother, now lives in Jindires, northwestern Syria, after her new family’s home was damaged in the earthquake that returned to shake the country on February 20.

ADOPTED AFTER SEVERAL KIDNAPPING ATTEMPTS

After becoming a worldwide phenomenon on social networks, when the news and conditions of her rescue were known, the girl suffered several kidnapping attempts, as confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

During his admission to a hospital in the town of Afrin, he suffered three abduction attempts by the Sultan Murad Division, a Syrian rebel faction that receives support from Turkey and is accused of using child soldiers in the context of the conflict in the arab country.

After her rescue, several organizations made calls and multi-million dollar offers to adopt her, an impetus that would have led some factions to break into the hospital, trying to kidnap the girl, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Likewise, members of the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad would have presented themselves on behalf of some Damascus merchants to adopt her, assuring that they belonged to a charity organization. Later, as the hospital doctors were able to verify, the association was in the name of Asmaa al Assad, the wife of the Syrian president.