UK firefighters rescue trapped mother in Turkiye, reunite her with new-born daughter

Emotional video showed UK firefighters reunite a mother trapped under the rubble in Turkiye with her new-born daughter. (Twitter: @LondonFire)
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Updated 11 February 2023
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UK firefighters rescue trapped mother in Turkiye, reunite her with new-born daughter

  • Woman was trapped under collapsed building for 4 days after Monday’s earthquakes

LONDON: London firefighters have rescued a mother who was trapped under a collapsed building in Turkiye for four days and reunited her with her new-born daughter.

Footage circulating on social media captured the moment when Dom Mabbett and his team from Edmonton fire station pulled the woman from a tiny gap within a mountain of debris, before leading her to her child who was waiting on a nearby street.

Mabbett is just one of the 77 members of the UK’s Fire & Rescue Service’s International Search & Rescue team dispatched to Turkiye following Monday’s earthquakes.

Responding to the footage, London Fire Brigade tweeted: “This is the incredible moment our ISAR team helped reunite a mother and daughter four days after the Turkey earthquake struck.”

 

 

This follows an effort earlier in the week in which British rescuers coordinated with a team of German volunteers in the rescue of a woman and her 5-year-old son.

Serap Topal, 33, who sustained crush injuries, and her son Mehmet were trapped for three days after their home in Kahramanmaras — one of the cities closest to the epicenter — collapsed before their rescue. 


Syria says impossible to move forward in talks without clear binding timeline for Israeli withdrawal

Updated 07 January 2026
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Syria says impossible to move forward in talks without clear binding timeline for Israeli withdrawal

  • Israel’s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the issue

A Syrian official said on Tuesday ​it would not be possible to move forward on “strategic files” in talks with Israel without ‌a clear, ‌binding ‌timeline ⁠for ​Israeli troops ‌to quit Syrian territory seized after Bashar Assad’s fall in December 2024.
The official, speaking ⁠to Reuters on ‌condition of ‍anonymity, said ‍the latest round ‍of US-brokered talks in Paris, held on Monday and Tuesday, ​concluded with a US initiative ⁠to suspend all Israeli military activities against Syria.
Israel’s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the issue.