A mother has been reunited with her baby in southern Turkey after a DNA test confirmed it was her daughter, almost two months after a devastating earthquake ripped through the region.
The country's family ministry said the three-and-a-half-month old "miracle baby", called Vetin, was pulled out of the rubble of a building in the province of Hatay more than five days after quake on February 6th with no health problems.
The child was reunited with her mother Yasemin Begdas at a hospital in the city of Adana 54 days after the disaster.
"Reuniting a mother and her child is one of the most precious tasks in the world," Turkey's minister of family and social services Derya Yanik said.
After initially being cared for at a hospital in Adana, the baby had been taken by the presidential plane to be cared for by authorities in Ankara.
A DNA test revealed that Ms Begdas was her mother and the baby was flown back to Adana, where the reunion took place at the hospital where she was treated.
More than 56,000 people were killed by the earthquake and subsequent tremors, 50,000 of which were in Turkey while the remainder were in Syria.
The baby's father and two brothers died in the quake, the ministry statement added. -Reuters
