In the southeastern province of Turkey of hatai a mother and her baby just 10 days oldhave been rescued by firefighters after spending more than 90 hours trapped in the rubble of a building destroyed by the earthquakes that shook the country on Monday.
The search and rescue teams of the istanbul municipality 10-day-old baby named Yagiz Ulas was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building on Friday night.
After baby Yagiz was rescued, teams also took his mother to safety and both were taken to ambulances for a medical examination.
Another man was rescued from the rubble of the same building.
The rescue of several survivors from rubble in Turkey lifted the spirits of weary search teams on Friday, four days after a major earthquake struck the country and neighboring Syriakilling more than 21,000 people.
Cold, hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people left homeless in the dead of winter by the region’s deadliest earthquake in decades.
In the last few hours there have been more than 80 thousand rescues of people that had been buried for hours by rubble, as reported by Turkey’s Ministry of the Interior Presidency for Disaster and Emergency Management, while specialized teams dig in an increasingly desperate search.
A surprising rescue occurred early Thursday morning in Turkey. A 7 month old baby She was pulled alive from the rubble left by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
The baby was buried almost 70 hours after a building collapsed in the same Hatay district.
The little girl was transferred to the hospital but in general her health condition was good.
Also on Thursday morning a 12-year-old boy was rescued from another building in the area affected by the earthquake.
Rescue teams are still searching for thousands of people suspected of being trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
But hope diminishes before the freezing temperatures and the passing of the hours.
Three days after the powerful earthquake that shook southern Turkey and northwestern Syria on Monday, the death toll continues to rise: on Thursday the death toll in the two countries exceeded 20,000.
in the district of besni the firefighters redoubled their work when they heard some voices coming from some ruins and after hours of efforts they managed to free Ahmet Aydin and his son Yusuf, a father and his son have been rescued by firefighters after taking 54 hours. At the moment there are no further details about his state of health.
In the center of the city of karamanmarasone of the most affected, a woman named hilal kocaoglu she has also managed to be rescued alive on Wednesday morning from the rubble of a collapsed hotel.
The agency Demiroren New reported that search and rescue teams working through the rubble of the hotel intensified their work due to the sound coming from the ruins in the early morning and finally reached kocaoglu.
The woman was freed from the rubble with injuries and hospitalized after receiving first aid from the medical teams at the rescue site.
In hataianother woman named Semra et it has also been rescued after 53 hours under the rubble.
“Thank you so much. I love you all ”, were the first words of hers that she said to the firefighters who rescued her.
Adding to the disaster is the fact that many of the basic services in southeastern Turkey have stopped working amid freezing temperatures.
The freezing weather, with as low as -6 degrees in the region, limits survivability as the hours pass since the first tremor early Monday morning.
Rescuers also managed to extract a dog named Pamuk from the rubble of a collapsed building in hataithree days after a massive earthquake.
The death toll from the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria continued to rise, surpassing 21,000 when the first aid from the UN it reached areas controlled by Syrian rebels, but hopes of finding more survivors were dashed.
(With information from EFE, Reuters and AFP)
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