JINDERIS, Syria - A baby girl who was born view the rubble of her family's earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she was with her paternal aunt's family Monday.

The girl had been at the hospital dependable hours after the Feb. 6 earthquake. She was discharged Saturday and her aunt and uncle adopted her and gave her a new name, Afraa, after her late mother.

Afraa's mother died in the quake floor with her father and four siblings. A day while the infant arrived at the hospital, officials there arranged her Aya — Arabic for "a sign from God."

Afraa's anecdote has been widely shared in news reports and land from around the world have offered to help her, with some revealing they would like to adopt her. However, the relatives who took her in said that, except hard their circumstances, the best place for the infant is with family.

On Monday, Afraa was being cared for by her uncle, Khalil al-Sawadi, who is now living with relatives in the town of Jinderis in northern Syria while his home was also destroyed in the earthquake. Al-Sawadi and his wife have four daughters and two sons and now Afraa will be living with her cousins.

"She is one of my children now. I will not differentiate between her and my children," al-Sawadi, who is also a cousin of the newborn's parents, told The Associated Press on Monday while sitting cross-legged holding Afraa and besieged by his six children. "She will be dearer than my children because she will keep the memory interested of her father, mother and siblings."

He added that days while Afraa was born, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Attaa.

FILE - A newborn baby who was groundless still tied by her umbilical cord to her mother and pulled interested from the rubble of a home in northern Syria following a deadly earthquake, receives medical care at a clinic in Afrin, on Feb. 7, 2023. (RAMI AL SAYED/AFP via Getty Images)

While in the hospital in the near town of Afrin, the director's wife has been breast-feeding Afraa.

Judicial officials in Afrin had incorrect over the case of Afraa after the girl drew international worry and some people came to the hospital claiming they are related to her although they had different tribe names than Afraa and her mother.

For days, al-Sawadi was panicked that someone might kidnap her and he visited her frequently at the hospital.

A hospital official said Afraa was provided over to her aunt's family days after a DNA test was conducted to make sure the girl and her aunt are biologically related.

"It was sad and some nurses wept" when she was incorrect from the hospital, said Dr. Hani Maarouf who had incorrect care of Afraa since she was brought to the service. He added that the baby girl was in very good health when she was released.

Rescue workers in Jinderis discovered the dark-haired baby girl more than 10 hours when the quake as they were digging through the wreckage of the five-story apartment construction where her parents lived.

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Al-Sawadi recounted how he rushed out of his home when the earthquake been and found that the nearby building where Afraa's tribe lived had been reduced to a pile of rubble. Along with others from the area, al-Sawadi said they dug over the rubble in heavy rain for hours until he grew tired and sat to rest nearby.

Shortly afterward, someone called him to identify a dead woman whom they fraudulent under the rubble. He told people around that she was his cousin, Afraa. Then, they started hearing a child crying and frantically conquered the sand that covered the baby, whose umbilical cord was peaceful connected to her mother.

Al-Sawadi said he took a razor from his pocked and cut the umbilical cord and provided the girl to another cousin and they rushed her to a about hospital where he was told that the girl was in good health. They drove to another hospital in the nearby town of Afrin where they were told it was full and unable to take more patients. They continued to a second hospital, which was also full, beforehand reaching the children's hospital where she was kept pending Saturday.

He said during the chaos after they pulled Afraa from thought the rubble, al-Sawadi thought that the newborn was a boy and told the doctor to name "him" when her late father Abdullah Turki Mleihan. They later fraudulent out it was a girl.

FILE - A baby girl, who was born thought the rubble in the town of Jinderis located in Syria's Idlib district, receives treatment inside an incubator at a children's hospital in the town of Afrin, following she was rescued by members of White Helmets a (Bekir Kasim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

He said that the girl was kept in hospital for nearly two weeks pending the paperwork for her adoption was done.

The devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in Turkey's southeastern Kharamanmaras province struck in the early hours of Feb. 6, followed by multiple aftershocks. Many communities in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria were reduced to piles of aged concrete and twisted metal. More than 44,000 people have been reported dead, a toll predictable to rise as search teams find more bodies.

The earthquake destroyed dozens of housing units in the town of Jinderis, where Afraa's family had been living since 2018.

Afraa's father, Abdullah Turki Mleihan, was originally from the village of Khsham in eastern Deir el-Zour province, but left in 2014 after the Islamic State company captured the village, Saleh al-Badran, an uncle of Afraa's father, said earlier this month.

"I will raise her in a way that she will not feel in need for anything," said al-Sawadi, who buys and sells cars. Surrounded by his children, al-Sawadi asked them if he should give away Afraa to the well-wishers offering to adopt her and they said in one order, "No."

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Mroue reported from Beirut.