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Rachel Hagan

Sister shields little brother from rubble during 3-day wait for help after earthquake

A brother and sister spent an agonising three days stuck in the rubble of their home in northern Syria after Monday’s devastating earthquake.

"Get me out of here, I’ll do anything for you," the older child is heard whispering to rescuers who are seen on video trying to aid the pair at the children’s home in Besnaya-Bseineh, a small village in Haram, Syria.

Twin earthquakes — the first a magnitude 7.8 and the second a 7.5 — hit Turkey and neighbouring Syria, killing over 8,000 people in its wake and leaving tens of thousands more injured and missing.

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