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WATCH: Little girl pulled alive from the rubble following airstrike in Syria

Little girl pulled alive from the rubble following airstrike in Syria – Nov 22, 2016

Two videos uploaded by opposition-affiliated Syrian media outlets on Tuesday show a five-year-old girl being rescued from beneath the rubble in an eastern Aleppo neighbourhood.

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According to Syrian Civil Defence, the girl is in stable condition.

AP could not independently confirm whether the man that appears in one of the videos is the girl’s father.

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The two videos were shot in Aleppo’s al-Maysar neighbourhood, which was hit by several airstrikes on Tuesday, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict through activists on the ground.

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Ibrahim Alhaj, a rescue worker with the Syrian Civil Defense, told AP the young girl’s mother and three siblings were killed during airstrikes on the neighbourhood on Tuesday.

The Syrian observatory reported that a woman and one child were killed during airstrikes on the area.

Differing death tolls are common in the Syrian conflict.

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