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Dramatic video captures Syrian rescue worker breaking down in tears as he frees baby from rubble

Click to play video: 'Syrian ‘White Helmet’ cries after rescuing baby from rubble'
Syrian ‘White Helmet’ cries after rescuing baby from rubble
WATCH ABOVE: A member of Syrian Civil Defence team can be seen weeping as he holds the baby in his arms – Oct 1, 2016

Video uploaded to social media shows a rescue worker in Syria breaking down as a baby girl is pulled from the rubble of a bombed building.

The footage from Sept. 29 shows  members of the Syrian Civil Defence team, popularly called the White Helmets, searching desperately through the remains of a building in Idlib in northern Syria before retrieving the infant and taking her to hospital.

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One emotional rescuer says the little girl, who is bloodied and covered in dust, is about one month old.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported at least six dead as air raids targeted Idlib City and the town of Jarjanaz in the eastern countryside of Idlib on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Syrian government forces and rebels waged fierce battles north of Aleppo on Sept. 30 a week into a Russian-backed offensive by the Syrian army to take the entire city.

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