The Turkish emergency services have rescued during the night of Saturday seven peopleamong which is a seven month old babyhaving stayed buried under rubble for more than 140 hours after the earthquakes registered on Monday in the south of the country, near the border with Syria.
A seven-month-old baby has been found in the city of Antioquia, in the province of Hatay, 140 hours after the start of the earthquake, according to the official Turkish news agency ‘Anadolu’. In addition, the rescue teams have been able take out a woman, who is pregnanthis brother and one other person from the rubble in the same province.
In addition, a 13 year old girlwas rescued in the city of Gaziantep after 133 hours. And in the Onikisubat district, Kahramanmarash province, emergency teams have found a 26-year-old man who was rescued from the rubble of an eleven-story building, as reported by the aforementioned agency. For its part, the Turkish newspaper ‘Daily Sabah’ has reported the rescue of a sixth person, a four-year-old girlin Sengul, southeast of Turkey.
On the seventh day since the earthquakes, the emergency services They continue to search for living people to rescue.a task that becomes more difficult with each hour that passes, since the standard time that a human being can go without the intake of water or food in disasters like this is 72 hours.
According to the latest official balance of this Saturday provided by the Turkish Vice President, Fuat Oktay, at least 24,617 people have died in Turkey alone, where the number of injured is 80,278 people. In neighboring Syria there is evidence of 3,553 deaths and 5,276 injuries, for a total of 28,170 deaths.
Meanwhile, the Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, has already expressed this Saturday his fear that the final figure deaths from earthquakes end up exceeding the 50,000 dead once the real body count begins.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Turkish Interior Ministry, has indicated that nearly 160,000 members of search and rescue teams –including international teams and NGOs– are working in the areas. affected. Up to the region have been sent large amounts of rescue equipmentmeals, basic necessities and psychosocial support groups.
Source: Lasexta
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