Turkish emergency teams have managed to rescue this tuesday to a mother and her six month old baby after about 29 hours trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building in Hatay after the earthquakes registered on Monday in the south of the country, near the border with Syria.
According to information collected by the Turkish state news agency, Anatolia, search and rescue workers they heard a voice from among the ruins of a building of apartments on a street in the Odabasi district, after which they managed to locate Hulya Yilmaz and her baby.
The two rescued have been transferred to a nearby hospital to receive treatment, without further details on his condition at the moment, while search and rescue work for possible victims in the area continues.
The rescue took place after four people, a mother and her three children, were found alive among the rubble of a building about 24 hours after the first earthquake of magnitude 7.4 on the Richter scale.
Likewise, a 24-year-old woman has been rescued about 27 hours after the earthquake after being located among the rubble of a seven-story building in the province of Kahramanmaras, while a 26-year-old man and a three-year-old boy have been found alive in the town of Malatya after being trapped for 22 hours.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, has indicated that about 13,740 search team members and rescue work in the affected areas, where 300,000 sheets, more than 41,500 tents, nearly 100,000 beds and heating and cooking material have been sent, according to the newspaper ‘Daily Sabah’.
Source: Lasexta
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