five-month-old sonit awal was asleep upstairs in the family home when the quake struck , but was saved from death by a cupboard that fell over him .
during frantic rescue efforts family and friends used their bare hands to try and free sonit , but without specialist equipment it was impossible .
but today mother rasmila awal told mailonline of her ` overwhelming joy ' when rescuers finally arrived and pulled sonit from the devastation .