Rescue worker sheds tears of joy as baby girl pulled from rubble in Syria's Idlib
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A one-month-old baby was rescued from the ruins of a building destroyed by Russian and regime airstrikes in Syria's northwestern city of Idlib on Friday, according to local civil defense sources.

The five-story building was completely leveled on Friday morning after Russian and regime warplanes pounded the opposition-held city.

Civil defense teams had already pulled seven dead bodies from the debris when they found the infant.

"We found her in the fourth floor of the destroyed building; she was alive," civil defense official Abu Khalifa -- who did not provide his full name due to fears of reprisal -- told Anadolu Agency.

"We finally managed to extricate her from the rubble after two hours," he said.

One-month-old Hamida Matuk, whose family is believed to have been killed in the airstrike, has since been taken to a nearby field hospital for treatment.

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