Two-month-old baby trapped in rubble in Syria for 16 hours is freed

Baby Mahmud Ibildi was heard crying from beneath a bomb-struck building as daily air strikes continue to batter the capital city of Syria.

After 16 hours working under difficult conditions, the civil defence in Ansari (in southern Aleppo) was able to rescue a trapped two month old baby from the rubble in the war-battered city of Aleppo in Syria. Her mother who was also reportedly rescued.

Daily air strikes by regime forces have killed hundreds of people in rebel-held parts of the city, drawing international condemnation.

Rebels constantly fire mortar bombs at government-controlled western sectors of Aleppo, which was Syria's commercial hub before its civil war erupted in 2011.

Shaken mother sitting with her son after his rescue.