The emotional rescue of the EMU to a mother and her two children four days after the earthquake in Turkey

The miracle has been possible. Four days after the earthquakes that have hit Turkey and SyriaLittle echoes of hope keep coming every day. Today the story that has impacted everyone is that of the rescue of a mother and hers two of her children and that has been possible thanks to the intervention of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) of the Spanish Armed Forces.

after a long night at workmoving inch by inch, stone by stone, following the signs of life in the collapsed buildings in Nurdagi, Turkey, this special body first managed to get a child out alive and shortly after his brother. It was her mother, also trapped, who had alerted them. AND the miracle was completed managing to rescue her alive toomore than 100 hours after the earthquakes.

“We have all cried with them,” the Defense Minister herself, Margarita Robles, confessed when she announced the news. The troops of the Military Emergency Unit left for Turkey on Monday to collaborate in the emergency work and rescue of survivors and on Tuesday they were assigned the area of ​​Gaziantep, a district of 60,000 inhabitants.

This Thursday, the troops of the military emergency unit traveled to the town of Nurdagui to work on the rescue of people who remained trapped under the rubble and with whom they had managed to contact by telephone. There they have worked tirelessly for hours until they rescued the two minors and their mother.

“When I have spoken with those who are there I have not stopped being moved, and I wanted to share that emotion with all of you here,” he explained. the head of Defense claiming “the value of emotions”defending that “in politics, as in life, it is important to feel and have emotions”.

Margarita Robles has stressed that “once again, it highlights how solidarity moves the world”, and has highlighted, in her capacity as Defense Minister, “the effort made by the men of our Armed Forces at any time, place and situation”, and in this line has highlighted that the troops of the UME are “spending hours and hours without sleep” with “very laborious operations”.

She added that “when these troops left for Turkey”, she “told them that saving just one life is enough”, and stressed that “of course, they are helping”, something that “today is reflected in this”, as he stressed before concluding by assessing as “good news” this rescue “within the drama and the terrible pain that this earthquake entails”.