8-month-old rescued from rubble 6 hours after earthquake in Japan

Video footage provided by the National Police Agency showed the tiny pink pyjama-clad baby being carried away in a blanket by rescuers, hours after a 6.5-magnitude quake struck Japan

Tokyo: Rescuers dramatically pulled a baby girl from a collapsed house early today more than six hours after a swarm of powerful earthquakes rocked southwestern Japan and left nine people dead. Video footage provided by the National Police Agency showed the tiny pink pyjama-clad baby gently carried away in a blanket by helmeted rescuers from the rubble of the home.

The girl, whose name has not been made public, reportedly did not suffer any injuries. Pic/National Police Agency

The rescue of the eight-month-old girl came in the Kumamoto prefectural town of Mashiki, the locale hardest hit by the 6.5-magnitude quake that struck on Thursday night.

The girl, whose name has not been made public, reportedly did not suffer any injuries. The child’s mother, grandfather, grandmother, and older brother were in the living room and kitchen of the home as she slept in another room on the first floor when the quake shook the southern island of Kyushu, the Mainichi Shimbun daily reported.

The family members, who all managed to escape, tried to rescue the baby but the house collapsed, the paper said. But a 50-member rescue team managed to pull her safely from the rubble, Kyodo News reported.

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