“A true miracle”: the rescue of a family buried under the rubble in Syria by the earthquakes

The White Helmets rescue group has managed to rescue an entire family from under the rubble in northwestern Syria, the hardest-hit area in the country because it is near the epicenter of the main earthquake in southern Turkey and which has left her more than 1,200 dead. “a true miraclethe voices of joy reach the sky, an entire family is rescued from under the rubble of their house in the town of Besanya, in the west of Idlib”, indicated the White Helmets, in a video broadcast last night on their official account Twitter.

In the clip of more than 2 minutes, you can see how two rescuers take the father out first, while the other two children are successively saved from under the rubble among a crowd of people who came to the place to see the “miracle” and shouted “God is great”. The rescue was carried out more than a day and a half after the first earthquake of a magnitude of 7.7, with an epicenter in southern Turkey and which has so far left a total balance of more than 8,300 dead on Turkish territory and Sirius.

the rescuers are working against the clock to save the “hundreds of families” who are still trapped. Adding to the suffering from the earthquake is the fact that the only direct route of entry for supplies to the northwestern areas of Syria, the Bab al Hawa border crossing, has been damaged. Bab al Hawa is the only point through which supplies enter to the areas of Idlib and the neighboring region of Aleppo in the hands of the opposition, with the exception of some specific shipments of humanitarian aid made by the United Nations from areas controlled by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Humanitarian sources assured that, in addition, the roads that go to the border crossing are in very poor condition, both on the Turkish and Syrian sides. In addition to Bab al Hawa, other public infrastructures have been damaged in the areahindering the development of humanitarian work, also weighed down by the general shortage of fuel in Syria and the lack of specialized machinery for rescue operations.