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Miracle baby rescued after four days under rubble after Huruma tragedy

Dealeryn Saisi Wasike, the baby who was rescued from the rubble of a six-storey building yesterday, at Kenyatta National Hospital.  (PHOTO: WILLIS AWANDU/ STANDARD)

After four days of sifting through debris that has yielded 23 bodies, rescuers at dawn yesterday made a miraculous discovery that brought cheer to the grim site.

From beneath the tonnes of twisted metal, concrete boulders and broken household items, at Ground Zero of the seven-storey building that collapsed on Friday night, baby Dealeryn Saisi Wasike aged seven months was pulled out alive at 4am.

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