They rescue a woman who spent more than 100 hours under the rubble in Turkey

Under a house that collapsed during the devastating earthquake in Turkeyrescuers found a forty-year-old woman who he was still alive more than 100 hours after the collapse.

“The rescue team worked more than 50 hours to make their way through the rubble and reach the woman,” the German NGO ISAR Germany said on Twitter.

“Our team rescued a woman from the rubble of a house this morning in #Kirikhan, Turkey,” the tweet reads.

The rescued woman is stable., assured the organization, but the operation to help her was “complicated”. Stefan Heine, a spokesman for the organization, described to AFP that it was “a centimeter job with rockbreaking hammers.”

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“The woman lay face down for a long time, very close to her dead relatives,” Heine said, adding that “such prolonged contact with a buried person had never been maintained before.”

“For us, too, this intervention was unique,” ​​the spokesperson explained.

So far, Turkey and Syria report more than 21,700 deaths from the two earthquakes that shook the region on Monday.

On both sides of the border, thousands of homes were destroyed and rescue workers are redoubling their efforts, although the chances of finding people alive are off once the three-day period that experts consider crucial has expired.

According to the latest official balances, the earthquake, of magnitude 7.8 and which was followed by more than a hundred aftershocks, left at least 21,719 dead, 18,342 of them in Turkey and 3,377 in Syria. (YO)