Miracle Japanese rescued officer a 4-month-old baby girl

A Japanese officer smiles as he holds a 4-month-old baby girl who was rescued in Ishinomak miracle

Soldiers from Japan's Self-Defense Forces went door to door in Ishinomaki, a coastal city northeast of Senda, pulling our bodies from properties that had been flattened by the earthquake and tsunami. Extra accustomed to hearing the crunching of rubble and the sloshing of mud than sounds of life, they dismissed the baby's cry as a mistake. Until they heard it again.

They made their strategy to a pile of particles and thoroughly eliminated fragments of wood and slate, shattered glass and rock. And then they noticed her: a 4-month-outdated child girl in a pink woolen bear suit.

A tidal wave actually swept the child from her mother and father' arms when it hit their dwelling on March 11. Afterward, her dad and mom - each of whom survived the disaster - took refuge of their wrecked home, apprehensive that their little woman was dead. Soldiers managed to reunite the child with her overjoyed father shortly after the rescue.

"Her discovery has put a brand new energy into the search," a civil protection official advised a neighborhood news crew. "We are going to listen, look and dig with even more diligence after this." Forward of the baby's rescue, officers reported finding a minimum of 2,000 our bodies washed up on the shoreline of Miyagi prefecture. How the child survived drowning - or being crushed by fallen timber and houses - stays a mystery.