More than a 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.

This morning, almost 198 hours after the devastating earthquake, an 18-year-old boy and two younger brothers were rescued.

The 18-year-old is named Mohamed Kafer and was found buried under rubble in the southern Turkish province of Antiyaman. Television in a neighboring country showed the moment when rescuers put a young man on a stretcher, while wearing an oxygen mask and injecting serum.

As he was being carried into the ambulance, it was clear that Kafer was wiggling his fingers.

198 saat sonra from Adıyaman bir mucize haberi daha geldi.
18-year-old Muhammed Kafer was rescued from enkasdan by Cetin Equipler. pic.twitter.com/SsZD4Atx88

— TRT Haber Canli (@trthabercanli) February 14, 2023

Earlier, rescuers pulled two brothers, 17-year-old Mohamed Enes Jeninar and 21-year-old Baki Jeninar, from under the rubble of an apartment building in the neighboring province of Kahramanmaras. Both were taken to the hospital by ambulance, their condition is still unknown.

#TurkiyeQuakes: In another miraculous rescue, a 17-year-old boy was rescued after living 198 hours under rubble in Kahramanmaras. pic.twitter.com/4fUPsaWP0T

— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) February 14, 2023

A 13-year-old boy was pulled out alive yesterday afternoon in Hatay province, a full 182 hours after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake destroyed his home. Four hours earlier, rescuers pulled a six-year-old girl alive in Antiyaman province, and almost at the same time, a 70-year-old woman saw sunlight again after spending 178 hours under the rubble.

Reports of rescues of victims of the earthquake, who were buried under the rubble for a week after the earthquakes on February 6, are causing a stir on a global scale. But as the happy incidents have been counted on the fingers of the past twenty-four hours and the curtain on the rescue is about to come down, eyes are turning to the next day’s huge challenges for Ankara and Damascus.

Speaking from Aleppo, Syria, where he was yesterday, UN Under-Secretary-General and Head of the Office of Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said the rescue phase in the two countries is “coming to an end” and the focus is now on providing shelter, food and psychological support for survivors. . The UN representative stressed that it is the Syrians who “rightfully feel abandoned,” as the international community has not yet provided them with the necessary assistance.

At last count, more than 37,000 people have died in Turkey and Syria since last week’s earthquakes.

^{According to REUTERS}