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The Rescue Of Azra Karaduman In Photos: Turkey’s Symbol Of Loss And Hope

by | 25th, October 2011

ARE Semiha Karaduman and her two-week old baby daughter Azra Karaduman symbols of hope or loss amid the earthquake? Both were saved from under debris of the same collapsed building in Ercis, Van, eastern Turkey. The father is missing…

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Turkish rescuers carry Semiha Karaduman, the mother of Azra Karaduman, a two-week-old baby girl they have saved from under debris of the same collapsed building in Ercis, Van, eastern Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011.A 2-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother were pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building in a dramatic rescue Tuesday, 48 hours after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake toppled some 2,000 buildings in eastern Turkey.Television footage showed a rescuer in an orange jumpsuit squeezing into the hulk of crushed concrete and metal to free the baby. The infant, named Azra Karaduman, was wrapped in a blanket and handed over to a medic amid a scrum of media and applauding emergency workers.(AP Photo)



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