A 13-year-old boy was rescued alive today after having been trapped in the rubble for 182 hours of a building in the province of Hatay, which collapsed last Monday due to the two great earthquakes that devastated the southeast of Turkey, and which have left more than 31,000 dead in this country and another 3,500 in Syria.
The rescue of little Kaan, shown live by the Halk TV station, is one of those that continue to take place little by little among the thousands of buildings that collapsed, and among those that some experts estimate there may still be as many as 155,000 bodies.
Four hours earlier, a 70-year-old woman had been rescued alive and a 26-year-old girl, after enduring 178 hours, both in Antioquia, the capital of Hatay province. In the province of Adiyaman, further north, a six-year-old girl was also saved this morning, after 176 hours in the rubble.
According to experts, the low temperatures, which these days have been close to zero even in Hatay provincethe southernmost of those affected by the earthquake, may favor survival because they delay dehydration.
Most of the rescues of the last two days, which the Turkish press describes as “miraculous”occur in Hatay, one of the areas with the highest level of destruction as it is located right on a geological fault, despite its distance from the epicenter of the earthquake.
Source: Lasexta
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