Mother of rescued Syria baby appeals for help Umm Mahmud sits next to her baby Mahmud Idilbi on July 12, 2014 in the Syrian city of Aleppo (AFP Photo/Zein Al-Rifai) Beirut (AFP) - The mother of a two-month-old Syrian baby rescued from the rubble of a bombed Aleppo building appealed on Saturday for help to raise her son. executive-mba-maando.tumblr/ Mahmud Idlibis dramatic rescue in the flashpoint northern city, a constant target of regime air raids, was shown in a video tweeted Friday by the team that saved him. The 30-second clip was posted by a group calling itself the Aleppo civil defence, volunteers who operate in rebel-held areas of the city. It was also posted on YouTube. Initially the team mistakenly identified the child as a girl but an AFP correspondent met the mother and child on Saturday. The mother, Umm Mahmud, said her husband and daughter had been killed in an air raid in the southern Aleppo district of Al-Ansari that trapped the baby. It was June 18. We were asleep when suddenly I heard a loud explosion. I passed out and woke up in hospital, she said. My husband and daughter were killed, added the black-clad woman who has now been taken in by her brother in Aleppos Al-Mashad district. We desperately need help, she said, her infant son next to her. We have nobody left. Activists blamed regime warplanes for the deadly raid. Mahmuds rescuer, Khaled, told AFP his team had pulled three women and three men from the rubble before realising several hours later that a baby also needed rescuing. The boy was still alive and unhurt. He had spent hours under the rubble. It was a miracle, he said. In the video the baby is heard crying as its tiny body, completely covered in dust, is carefully extracted. syria-freedom-2014.tumblr/ AFP could not initially independently verify the authenticity of the video which was posted nearly a month after the event, apparently because of technical problems. Daily air strikes by regime forces have killed hundreds of people in rebel-held parts of Aleppo, drawing international condemnation. More than 170,000 people have been killed in the three-year war, one third of them civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ************* syria-freedom2017.tumblr/ Umm Mahmud sits next to her baby Mahmud Idilbi on July 12, 2014 in the Syrian city of Aleppo (AFP Photo/Zein Al-Rifai) ********************///////////////////// Syrian army air raids strike various targets in Aleppo 16 days ago The Syrian army conducted Thursday air raids against targets in the area of Karm al-Jabal in Aleppo, killing three according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Syrias war has killed more than 162,000 people. Duration: 00:42 ..................................... Shelling in Aleppo, air strikes in Damascus 1 day ago Syrian rebels attacked parts of Aleppo as government forces pound Damascus from the air. Deborah Gembara reports................ .............................. nternational-public-policy.tumblr/
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