Three people, one of them a minor, are found alive 11 days after the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
11 days have passed since the earthquakes that devastated Syria and Turkey, and small miracles continue to happen: a minor and two adults have been rescued alive in Antakya, in southern Turkey. The Turkish government already counts around 40,000 deaths.
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Rescue operations in the Turkish city of Antakya. Photo: EFE
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Three people, including a minor, have been rescued alive under the rubble of the turkey earthquake, after being trapped for 11 days. The minor and the two adults have been found alive under the ruins of a building in Antakya, southern Turkey.
For their part, the Turkish authorities have raised to about 40,000 dead due to the earthquakes registered on February 6 in the south of the country, near the border with Syriacountry in which they died about 4,000 peopleaccording to official data.
The Turkish Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, has detailed that to date 39,672 deaths have been confirmed in the ten provinces affected by the earthquakes, which have also left more than thirteen million victims.
Thus, he has reiterated that the priority continues to be search and rescue effortsalthough the time that has passed since the earthquakes is reducing the chances of continuing to find survivors among the rubble of the thousands of buildings collapsed by the tremors.
Soylu stressed that more than 264,000 workersbetween search and rescue services, health workers and agents, before noting that there are planes, helicopters and ships assigned to deliver aid.
Source: Eitb
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