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Turkey: Little girl rescued 178 hours after earthquake

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Turkey: Little girl rescued 178 hours after earthquake

One week after the killer earthquake 7.8 on the Richter scale, “miracles” are still happening on the ruins of buildings in Turkeyrescuers pull survivors out.

A four-year-old girl was rescued 178 hours after the earthquake in Antiyam, Turkey, according to the transport minister of a neighboring country. According to Turkish media, the girl is six years old.

A little earlier, a woman, Serap Domez, emerged alive from the ruins of a collapsed apartment building in Antakya (Antioch), 176 hours after the earthquake. In the same city in Hatay province, a 70-year-old woman, Nuray Gurbouz, was rescued after spending 178 hours under the rubble.

Early this morning, Anadolu agency reported that a 7-year-old boy, Mustafa, had been rescued in Hatay province.

62-year-old Nafize Yilmaz was taken alive from the ruins in the city of Noordaghi in the same province. A 62-year-old woman and a 7-year-old boy were trapped for 163 hours before being rescued yesterday, Sunday.

Sibel Kaya, 40, was pulled from the rubble of a five-story building in Gaziantep province 170 hours after the earthquake.

Erengul Oder, 60, remained under the rubble for 166 hours in Antiyaman province, while Cengiz Polat, 45, was pulled from the rubble 162 hours later. Polat told rescuers that he knocked on the stove next to him to make noise so that he could be heard.

In the same province, after 158 hours, rescuers managed to free 10-year-old Asim Baltatsi, who, as soon as he got out, asked the rescuers for a fruit-flavored jelly.

Meanwhile, rescuers in Kahramanmaras said they were in contact with an elderly woman, her daughter and the child of the latter, who were locked in a room of a three-story house. There may be another person in the next room.

Rescuers try to break through the wall to get to them, but are stopped by a pole. Spanish rescuers, the Turkish army and police are working on the building, which has not completely collapsed.

β€œWe don’t know if they are alive. We just recorded heat with thermal imaging cameras, but did not hear any sounds,” a Turkish soldier told Reuters.

At least 36,000 people have died in Turkey and Syria since last Monday’s earthquake, according to the latest count.

According to REUTERS

Author: newsroom

Source: Kathimerini

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