Nairobi, Kenya: A baby girl has been rescued after 80 hours trapped in the rubble of a collapsed residential building in the Kenyan capital, in what emergency workers are hailing as a miracle.
The infant was pulled alive from the debris at about 4 a.m. local time Tuesday (9 p.m. Monday ET), the Kenya Red Cross said in a statement.
“(The) guys were saying it’s a miracle for the baby girl to have been in there without a scratch,” said Bonny Odhiambo, a Red Cross EMT who led the team involved in the rescue.
The baby, later identified as 6-month-old Dealeryn Saisi Wasike, has been reunited with her father, according to a statement from the Red Cross.
 

Kenyan rescue and recovery workers at the scene of a building collapse in Nairobi.

Odhiambo said the infant was discovered by a military search and rescue team using specialized equipment that detected breathing beneath the rubble.
Soldiers and EMTs quickly dug into the debris and found the child — who was wrapped in a light blue blanket — inside of a bucket.
Her positioning apparently helped her survive the collapse of the seven-story residential building, which killed at least 23 people.
The building, in the capital’s Huruma district, fell as heavy rains inundated the city Friday. It had previously been condemned, police say, and the building owner is in police custody.

Source: CNN, May 3, 2016