With just hours to go a week after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, search efforts continue in the hope of finding people alive.
In an official count, the authorities indicated that as of Sunday there were 33,179 deaths (29,605 in Turkey and 3,574 in Syria).
Several rescue tasks have been disseminated through social networks with successful results. It is that the low temperatures and the time that they have remained under the rubble of the collapsed buildings, reduce the hopes of finding survivors.
Survivors found after spending more than 125 hours under rubble in Turkey
The Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, announced that a relief team, with members of his country, managed to rescue a woman and a child under the rubble of the Ebrar Sitesi Hazal Apartmani building, in the city of Sehit Aileleri, Kahramanmaras.
“The Salvadoran rescue team, with the support of Turkish rescuers, has just managed to rescue 2 survivors, a woman and a child, after more than 150 hours buried,” Bukele said on his Twitter account.
According to the president, it is about Melih Efe Ozcan, a minor of approximately five years, and Deniz Dal, a woman of around 30. Both were transferred to a hospital.
In the video that accompanies Bukele’s message, you can see the moment where rescuers take a minor who remains immobile out of the rubble and place him on a stretcher, amid screams and sobs from those present.
It is also visualized how they take out a woman, who manages to move her arms and who is placed an orthopedic neck before laying her on another stretcher.
The Presidency of El Salvador added in a statement that the rescue took place at 10:30 a.m. local time, under the rubble of the Ebrar Sitesi Hazal Apartmani building, in the city of Sehit Aileleri, Kahramanmaras, in southern Turkey.
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“The authorities reported that the minor had signs of hypothermia,” the note added.
While the Haberturk portal announced that after spending 158 hours in the rubble, a 63-year-old woman was rescued.
The woman counted the days she was trapped and told the rescuers: “Today is 6 days, you came to save me, thank God.”
The rescue tasks lasted four hours and the woman was transferred to a medical center. Within her requests is to drink water. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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