Rasmila Awal walked home from the store on Saturday, the earth began to shake. A few moments later, she saw the building she lived in collapse.
And inside, Awal knew, were her children -- Soniya, aged 10, and Sonies, only 5 months old.
"I started screaming and asking neighbors for help,". It looked at first glance as if the children could not have possibly survived.
"I went numb," said Awal, who is 35. "I didn't hear anything, didn't know if they were alive or not. "Her husband, Sham Krishna Awal, 34, a microbus driver, was working when the quake shook the region. But Soniya and Sonies were at home.
Sham Awal rushed home and scrabbled frantically through the rubble, searching for his children. Neighbors came to help. But Rasmila Awal became despondent.
"I had very little hope that they had survived," she said. "I didn't hear any sound at all."
And then, After two hours, Soniya, a fourth-grader, was found alive. But the baby was still missing.
The father also began to lose hope of finding his son alive -- until, from under the rubble, he heard his son crying. But night had fallen and there was little that could be done. The next morning, the Awals returned to the remnants of their home. And they heard their baby was still crying.
The soldiers, having returned as well. And 22 hours after the earthquake, the mother saw a soldier pull her baby out of the earth. His face was coated with dust. But he was alive. It was a happy ending.
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