A four-year-old girl has been pulled out of the aftermath of an earthquake in Central Italy after her older sister sacrificed her life by throwing herself on top of her in act of true love.
The two girls were found buried by debris in Pescara del Tronto following the 6.2 magnitude earthquake.
“Giulia died saving her sister. She lay on top of her,” the girls’ great-grandmother Angela Cafini told The Daily Mail.
“That is the only reason she is alive. I am told she has no injuries and that is the only explanation for that,” she said while weeping at the thought of the two girls holding eachother as their house crumbled around them.
The earthquake affected multiple villages in central Italy, killing nearly 250 people, The NY Post reports.
What a beautiful act of love in the most tragic of circumstances. Rest in peace Giulia.
