Survivors continue to emerge from the rubble in Turkey and Syria, six days after the quakes

Euskaraz irakurri: Bizirik dauden pertsonak erreskatatzen jarraitzen dute Turkian eta Sirian, lurrikaratik sei egunera

While the number of deaths in Turkey and Syria It has already exceeded 24,000, the rescue teams continue to find survivors who had been under the rubble for more than 120 hours.

Masallah Çiçek, a 55-year-old woman, was rescued alive early Saturday from the ruins of her apartment in Diyarbakir, 122 hours after the earthquake that shook ten provinces in the country’s southeast on Monday.

According to the last official balance of this Saturday, at least 20,665 people have died in Turkey alone, where the number of injured is 80,088 people. in the neighbor Syria there is a record of 3553 deaths and 5,276 wounded.

The Turkish agency for disaster management, AFAD, has confirmed that more than 90,000 people have been evacuated of the ten Turkish provinces affected by the earthquake and right now there are more than 166,000 rescue teams and volunteers on the ground, including some 8,000 foreign rescue specialists.

On the sixth day since the earthquakes, the emergency services continue to search for people alive to rescue, a task that becomes more difficult with each passing hour, since the standard time that a human being can remain without the intake of water or food in disasters like this it is 72 hours.

Monday’s 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes were centered in Kahramanmaras province and affected more than 13 million people in 10 provinces. It is feared that tens of thousands of victims are still under the rubble in a region the size of a European country like Hungary.