An infant is recovering with her family in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo after she was buried in rubble after an alleged airstrike on her home on 22 January.
An activist filmed 14 month old Ghina Khalil as rescuers dug her out from rubble and dust, apparently with no obvious injuries.
The footage, which was uploaded to the internet by the Nour Media Centre, showed a group of men in the suburb of Maasraniyeh digging through rubble to reveal the dazed infant.
According to the video, Khalil was apparently completely buried for at least three minutes.
The video appeared genuine and corresponded with AP reporting of events in the area.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said a colleague in Aleppo told him that Maasraniyeh was subject to a missile attack on Wednesday 22 January, which killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 20.
Abdurrahman said the dead included five children.
Khalil was shown apparently with members of her family in a later video uploaded by the Nour Media Centre.
She appeared remarkably unscathed from her ordeal.
According to the activist who filmed Khalil’s rescue, her mother was killed in the attack and her 10-year-old sister is missing.
Her five other sisters survived, although two were lightly wounded, he said.
More than 130,000 people have died since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad began in March 2011, and millions of people have been uprooted from their homes.
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