The world has woken up this Monday with a terrible earthquake of magnitude 7.8 that has shaken Turkey and Syria. According to reports from both countries, at this time there are already more than 2,700 deaths (at least 1,651 in Turkey and more than 800 in Syria).
The authorities have warned that the figure could be much higher, due to the thousands of buildings that have collapsed in the quake.
The Ghanaian striker Christian Atsu, currently in the ranks of Hatayspor (and former Málaga, among others), would have been one of those affected by the earthquake and was trapped under the rubble.
What is still unknown is its status, because contradictory information has been disseminated in this regard. On the one hand, from Portugal, some media such as to ballThey say that he has been found alive. On the other, a team technician has declared to the Turkish media that Atsu has not yet been rescued, publishes daily ACE from Spain.
version of to ball is this. The attacker would be in the hospital, with injuries to his right foot, his right leg and with difficulties breathing. According to the Portuguese newspaper or play (Atsu excelled at Porto before being signed by Chelsea), the player would be on the ninth floor of his building at the time of the earthquake. Information that in Turkey one of the technicians questions, assuring that he is still under the rubble.
The local emergency services would also have managed to get the footballers Onur Ergun and Burak Oksuz (all of them from the Antioquia team) out of the rubble (always according to ‘A Bola’). In addition, Kerim Alici would have emerged from the rubble by his own foot.
But that version is confusing, because it clashes with the one offered by a technician from the Turkish team. According to Mustafa Özat, search efforts continue to find the players trapped in the rubble.
From Turkey, the coach Özat denies the Portuguese media and affirms that they have not found him. “Unfortunately, two members of our team, Christian Atsu and our sports director Taner Savut, are still under the rubble.”
“We can’t reach anyone. We can’t get to that area. If we can reach it, the world would be ours. We are waiting for help. It is the most difficult place to reach. Hatay is the place that needs the most help right now,” he adds.
Indeed, Christian Atsu, who also played for Chelsea and Newcastle in the English Premier, scored the winning goal yesterday (1-0) in the match between Hatayspor and Kasimpasa. The Ghanaian is celebrating his first season in the Turkish Super League, where he came from Saudi Arabia’s Al-Raed.
Support from Malaga, Chelsea, Newcastle…
Málaga, after learning of the disappearance of Christian Atsu due to the earthquake in Turkey and before he was found alive, sent all its support to the Ghanaian and his family.
“Our thoughts are with him and his family at this time of terrible anguish,” they wrote on Twitter. The other clubs in which the Ghanaian international has played have expressed themselves in the same vein: Newcastle and Chelsea. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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