Three people, including a child, have been rescued this Saturday alive after 296 hours trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of antioch by the strong earthquakes that devastated the region thirteen days ago.
This was reported by the official agency anadoluspecifying that the rescue teams managed to save a man, a woman and a child who had been left under the ruins of the apartment building where they lived.
One of them, however, died in the minutes after the rescue, indicated the private chain NTV.
The age and identity of those rescued are unknown at this time.
The rescue efforts were carried out by Turkish and Kyrgyz relief teams, according to media Turks.
Another rescued man, a 45-year-old man, had been found on Friday night, 278 hours after the earthquake, in the province of hatainear the border with Syria, where the city of antakyawhich was completely destroyed.
There is less and less hope of finding survivors in the towns near the epicenter of the quake, further north.
In these mountainous regions, such as kahramanmaras, Elbistan and Adiyamanwhere snowfall occurred, 15 degrees below zero were recorded at night, teams from the AFP.
The earthquake, of magnitude 7.8, has left more than 43,000 dead in Turkey and neighboring Syria, according to the latest official balances.
The earthquakes of 7.7 and 7.6 degrees of magnitude that shook eleven provinces of Turkey They have caused the death of at least 39,772 people in this Eurasian country, as reported last night by the Turkish Minister of the Interior, Suleyman Soylu.
Along with the nearly 5,000 fatalities registered so far in Syriathe total figure already exceeds 43,000, and according to experts it will still rise considerably as tens of thousands of bodies remain under the rubble of collapsed buildings, making these earthquakes the worst catastrophe the region has experienced in more than a year. century.
The Turkish Minister of the Interior, Suleyman Soyluupdated the death toll in the country to 39,672, bringing the total death toll in Turkey and Syria to 43,360.
The number is likely to continue to rise as rescue workers recover more bodies from the devastation.
The powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake became the deadliest catastrophe in Turkey’s modern history.
(With information from EFE and AFP)
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