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Hope in Japan: 4-Month Old Baby Rescued from Rubble, Reunited with Parents

Hope in Japan: 4-Month Old Baby Rescued from Rubble, Reunited with Parents
Japanese soldiers discovered a crying 4-month-old baby buried beneath the rubble. She was swept from the arms of her parents by the tsunami but reunited with them shortly after her rescue.

Soldiers from the Japanese Defense Force going door-to-door yesterday, pulling bodies from homes flattened by the earthquake and tsunami in a northeast coastal town, heard the cries of a baby girl from amid the rubble. 

They carefully removed fragments of wood, shattered glass and rock. And then they saw her: a four-month old baby girl in a pink woolen bear suit, all alone.

The tidal wave literally swept the unnamed girl away from her parents' arms when it hit their home… But soldiers managed to reunite the baby with her overjoyed father shortly after the rescue.

(READ the story in Time magazine)

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