A 5-month-old baby survived the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25 after being buried in a collapsed building, only to be rescued 22 hours later. It was reported by local newspaper Kathmandu Today .
In this Sunday, April 26, 2015, photo taken by Amul Thapa and provided by KathmanduToday.com, four-month-old baby boy Sonit Awal is held up by Nepalese Army soldiers after being rescued from the rubble of his house in Bhaktapur, Nepal, after Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the densely populated Kathmandu valley. Thapa says that when he saw the baby alive after 20 hours of rescue efforts all my sorrow went. Everyone was clapping. It gave me energy and made me smile in spite of lots of pain hidden inside me.”
The rescued baby’s mother, Rasmila Awal, was walking by her house in Bhaktapur city when the quake struck, CNN reported . Awal left her 10-year-old daughter Soniya and five-month-old Sonit in her collapsed house, and kept screaming for her help.
At first it was seen as helpless. “I was freezing. I couldn’t hear anything, I didn’t know if I was alive or dead,” Awal said. The rescue team also gave up and left the scene, NBC reported.
However, the baby’s voice was heard, and the rescue team returned again, and Sonya and Sonit were rescued. It was covered in dust, but there were no major injuries.
“Sonit is finally laughing,” Awal told CNN. The Mirror newspaper reported on Sonit and Sonya smiling, surrounded by their families.
