A small smile on her bewildered face, her tiny pink socks and sweater seemingly unmarked, a nine-year-old girl is carried uninjured from the rubble of her home this morning after 60 hours trapped there.
Rescued from the “Armageddon” of rubble strewn Antakya in Turkey, the pig-tailed child is passed from rescue worker to rescue worker, her chubby arm wrapping around each of their necks in turn.
They clap at the miracle in their arms as she is zigzagged down the mound of collapsed buildings, smiling in astonishment, their relief at a rare rescue success amid mounting bodies palpable as they stare in disbelief and ruffle her hair.
