Life under the rubble: they manage to rescue four people in Turkey more than 180 hours after the earthquakes

The Turkish emergency services rescued a man near 183 hours later of being buried under the rubble of a destroyed building in the city of Antioquia, all after recorded earthquakes last week in the south of the country, near the border with Syria.

After an intense effort by the Turkish search teams in the city of Antioquia, Barber, has been rescued from among the ruins of a building located in the Cebrail district after being trapped for 183 hours, and then transferred to a hospital for receive medical attentionas reported by the Turkish state news agency, Anatolia.

On the other hand, in the Turkish city of Kahramanmarash, epicenter of earthquakesThey have gotten rescue two young people alive after 198 hours trapped under the rubble.

The television channels broadcast live the rescue of the brothers Muhammed Enes, 17, and Abdulbaki, 20, who were sent to hospitals with injuries of various degrees.

Moments later, they also managed to pull 18-year-old Muhammed Cafer Çetin out of the rubble in the city of Adiyaman, after having previously contacted him and found that he was well and could speak.

These rescues are already considered “miracles”, as they occur eight days after thousands of buildings collapsed in ten provinces of Turkey, where more than 80,000 injured people have been saved in the first days.

In this way, more than a week after the earthquakes, the emergency services continue to find 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.

He death toll due to registered earthquakes has risen to more than 37,000according to the latest official balances, a figure that makes it one of the most lethal, surpassing which took place in 1939.

Call for tents for earthquake victims

It is estimated that there are still dtens of thousands under the rubble, while there are also many who have been left homeless. However, the rescue work has stopped in most places and foreign rescue teams have started to return to their countries, while cranes and other work machines have started to remove the rubble.

“Now, under the frigid winter conditions, the main need is tentscontainers,” said the president of the Ankara Chamber of Architects, Tezcan Karakus Candan, in Gaziantep.

“May your Valentine’s gift be a tent for the victims of the earthquake,” insisted the expert after inspecting the affected regions. In statements to Halk TV, the architect has blamed the government of the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for the great lethal dimension of the earthquake. “Nothing can describe what we see. There is no one on the streets here. Yesterday we were in Hatay. There is no city anymore.”

“The Government is placing all the blame on some builders to get rid of his responsibility. If the necessary scientific measures were taken, not so many people would die. This is a mass murder,” he said.

According to Vice President Fuat Oktay, as of last midnight, tent camps had been established in 257 points of a surface of 110 square kilometers spread over 10 provinces.

In addition, it has been completed the infrastructure of 27 “cities” of containers, with the aim of having between 150,000 and 200,000 containers. “Container shipments to 10 provinces and districts have started… We have container cities of about 4,900 containers. There are already about 20,000 people housed in these containers,” Oktay said.