Trapped for 129 hours, a mother and son survived the devastating earthquake in Syria. 'It didn't feel real,' 23-year-old Ibrahim Zakaria told DCampoamor.
Surrounded by darkness and with the weight of a collapsed 5-story building on top of him, 23-year-old Ibrahim Zakaria didn't know if he was alive or dead.
After being trapped under slabs of concrete, rock and debris for five days, Zakaria is sharing the harrowing tale of how he willed himself to survive. "I crawled next to her, without seeing her, just by touching and asking her what was going on and what was happening. I asked her what she needed, and she said the same thing: 'My legs are trapped under the wall,'" she explains."So I did the same thing — I pulled her. She also has two broken legs."
It wasn't until Zakaria was transferred and admitted to a nearby hospital that he realized he had survived and was told how long he had been trapped. It was there that he was also properly reunited with his mother, who was pulled from the rubble shortly after Zakaria was saved.
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