{"id":1202,"date":"2017-11-17T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2017-11-17T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:41:43","slug":"iran-earthquake-baby-found-alive-in-rubble-three-days-after-tremors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2017\/11\/17\/iran-earthquake-baby-found-alive-in-rubble-three-days-after-tremors\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran earthquake: Baby found alive in rubble three days after tremors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rescue workers have found a baby alive and well, three days after a deadly earthquake<\/a> that struck on the Iran-Iraq border.<\/p>\n

The child was found amid the rubble of the town of Sarpol-e-Zahab on Wednesday morning – two and a half days after the magnitude 7.3 quake which has killed at least 530 people, local media reported.<\/p>\n

A picture of the child, which appears to be smiling and not in distress, has been widely circulated among Iranians on social media. Many people called the rescue a \u201cmiracle\u201d and expressed how the child\u2019s survival is cause for hope after the tragedy.<\/p>\n

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Deadly earthquake on Iran-Iraq border disrupts live interview<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Emergency services continued to search for survivors on Thursday, but four days after the quake fewer and fewer people are being pulled alive from the wreckage of apartment buildings.<\/p>\n

In Kurdish majority town of Sarpol-e-Zahab, which was the worst affected, field hospitals are treating the injured and tents have been set up for the 70,000 people left homeless in winter weather.<\/p>\n

Aid agencies say there is still a need for shelter, blankets, children\u2019s clothes, medicine and large cans to store drinking water.<\/p>\n

Donations from diaspora Iranians in the West and others wanting to help have hit a snag in the form of international sanctions rules: in the US, it has not been possible to send cash directly to people within Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n

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In an effort to raise funds and awareness, one Iranian weightlifter – who won gold at the Rio 2016 Olympics – has put his medal up for auction in an effort to raise funds for victims.<\/p>\n

Kianoush Rostami, who grew up in Kermanshah province near Sarpol-e-Zahab, said he was was \u201ctaking a step, however small\u201d to help those in need after the earthquake.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am returning my Rio 2016 Olympics gold medal – which actually belongs to them – to my people,\u201d he wrote in an Instagram post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will put my medal up for auction. All the proceedings will go to those hit by the earthquake.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s magnitude 7.3 quake was centred 31 kilometres (19 miles) outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja, the US Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n

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