More than a week after the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria, life continues to make its way, almost miraculously, through the rubble. This is the case of Fatma Gungor, a 70-year-old woman whom the Turkish emergency services have managed to rescue alive about 212 hours after being buried under the remains of a building in Gaziantep.
After an intense effort, the search teams have succeeded in freeing the woman from among the ruins of a seven-story building in the city of Adiyaman, to later transfer her to a hospital where she is receiving medical attention, as reported by the state agency Anatolia.
Fatma’s relatives, who were waiting around the rubble, have embraced and thanked the search teams and rescue having taken her out of there alive. A rescue that came after almost nine days buried.
Meanwhile, emergency services continue to search for survivors to rescue, a task that it gets more complicated with each passing hour. And it is that the standard time that a human being can remain without drinking water or food in disasters like this is 72 hours.
The earthquake already leaves at least 35,500 dead in Turkey and more than 3,700 in Syriaamong the figures offered by the Government of Bashar al Assad and the rebels in Idlib and Aleppo.
Source: Lasexta
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