Two children were able to be rescued after spending several hours trapped between the flagstones of what was once their home. The case was known by a journalist who posted on Twitter the request of two children who remained under the rubble after the earthquake that affected Turkey and Syria and caused the death of more than 11 thousand people.
The journalist Zuher Almosa was the one who published the emotional video on Twitter that documents the rescue of these two brothers. The two boys can be seen calling for help as they remain trapped.. The older girl tried to comfort her brother and she covered the boy’s head with her arm to protect him from the stones that imprisoned them.
“If you save my brother and me, I will be your friend for life,” the little girl promised the members of the rescue teams who were working to help them get out of the rubble.
In another post, Almosa shows the faces of the two children, who are already safe and sound in a care center, although it is unknown if they have living relatives.
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The two children would have spent more than 26 hours buried under the remains of the collapsed building after the two powerful earthquakes that affected the southern part of Turkey on the border with Syria.
complicated rescues
For two days and nights since the magnitude 7.8 quake, thousands of first responders worked in freezing temperatures to find survivors under collapsed buildings on both sides of the border.
The head of the Turkish Red Crescent, Kerem Kinik, warned that the first 72 hours were critical in the rescue efforts, but noted that these were hindered by the “severe weather conditions.”
Still, emergency workers were able to save several children on Wednesday found under a collapsed block in Turkey’s hard-hit Hatay province, where entire townships have been wiped out.
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“Suddenly we heard voices… Immediately we heard the voices of three people at the same time,” said lifeguard Alperen Cetinkaya. “We expect more from them (…) the chances of getting people out here alive are very high,” he added.
He provisional balance of the tragedy already rises to more than 11,700 people deadalthough it may double if the fears of the experts of the World Health Organization are confirmed. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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