In Syria, a child is saved but loses his family

Tariq Haidar, a 3-year-old boy who was rescued from under the rubble after a devastating earthquake destroyed his family home in the town of Jandaris, receives treatment inside a hospital where doctors were forced to amputate his left leg, in Afrin, Syria February 9, 2023. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano

Rescuers working by torchlight pulled three-year-old Tariq Haidar from the rubble some 42 hours after a devastating earthquake destroyed his family home in the Syrian town of Jandaris. His family couldn't be saved.

Orphaned by the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey in the dead of night on Monday, Haidar was brought to a hospital where doctors were forced to amputate his left leg. They are trying to save his right.