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Yemeni mother gives birth after being pulled from rubble
BBC reported that a Yemeni mother who fled the war in her home country has given birth to a baby girl ten hours after being rescued from her earthquake-hit home in Turkey.
Faten Al Yousifi, who was 39 weeks pregnant, had decorated her baby’s nursery and had a birth bag ready to go when the quake struck her flat in Malatya, just after 4am last Monday.
After ten hours of crouching – dazed, dehydrated, and fearing for the safety of her unborn child – she was pulled from the rubble by a family friend, Hisham, and rescue workers. She was rushed to the hospital where the doctors carried out a Caesarean section to deliver her baby girl Loujain, meaning “silver” in Arabic.
But then came tragedy. Hisham returned to rescue Faten’s husband, and was shocked to see a nearby building had collapsed on top of their flats.