'Miracle' baby pulled from wreckage after deadly Nepal quake
Amongst the terrible destruction and devastation wrought by Nepal's deadly earthquake, a tiny little miracle emerged.
A four-month-old baby boy was pulled from the ruins of a collapsed building in the town of Bhaktapur, more than 22 hours after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck.
The images of the boy's rescue published by Kathmandu Today are incredible and moving, no more so than his remarkable survival story.
Crying and caked in dirt, the images show Nepali soldiers lifting the baby from the wreckage.
Rescuers were called after the little boy's home collapsed in the deadly quake that hit on Saturday, according to local media.
Attempts to rescue the trapped baby from the ruins proved unsuccessful and the search was called off when darkness fell.
From beneath the rubble, the little boy continued to cry and rescue teams returned the next day, eventually pulling him to safety at about 10am on Sunday.
The baby, who was named locally Sonit Awal, is understood to be in a stable condition without any internal injuries.
The infant's story of survival isn't the only one to emerge from the quake, that has claimed the lives of more than 5000 people.
Rishi Khanal, 28, was pulled from the wreckage of a hotel where he lay trapped for some 80 hours.
He had been desperately calling relatives on his phone for days and was forced to drink his own urine to survive.
Dazed and covered in dirt, Khanal was carried out of the wreckage on a stretcher before being taken to hospital where doctors said he was lucky to be alive, remarkably suffering only a leg injury.
International rescue teams, some using sniffer dogs, have been racing against the clock to find survivors trapped in the rubble of houses and other buildings.
The government acknowledged it had been overwhelmed by the devastation from the deadliest quake in Nepal in over 80 years.
Around 8,000 people were injured while the United Nations estimates that eight million people have been affected.
