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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Ali Haj Suleiman, Arwa Ibrahim

‘Crush syndrome’ is debilitating Syria’s earthquake victims

Nour Abdelqader suffered crush syndrome to both her lower limbs, causing one leg to be amputated [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera]

Idlib, Syria – When two-year-old Nour Abdelqader was pulled out from under the rubble in the rebel-held town of Jandaris after last month’s deadly earthquakes, rescue teams thought she was dead.

Nour’s brother and mother did not survive the tremors, yet the young toddler’s heart was still beating when she arrived at a hospital in Afrin, northwest Syria.

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