Turkish emergency crews have managed to rescue a mother and her six-month-old baby Tuesday after nearly 29 hours trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building in Hatay following Monday’s earthquakes in the south of the country near the Syrian border.
According to reports carried by the Turkish state news agency Anatolia, search and rescue workers heard a voice from the ruins of an apartment building on a street in the Odabasi district, after which they managed to locate Hulya Yilmaz and her baby.
The two rescued have been taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, with no further details on their condition at the moment, while search and rescue work for possible victims in the area continues. The rescue has taken place after four people – a mother and her three children – were found alive in the rubble of a building some 24 hours after the first earthquake of magnitude 7.4 on the Richter scale.
Also, a 24-year-old woman has been rescued some 27 hours after the earthquake after being located in the rubble of a seven-story building in the province of Kahramanmaras, while a 26-year-old man and a three-year-old boy have been located alive in the town of Malatya after 22 hours trapped.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Turkish Interior Ministry, has indicated that about 13,740 members of the search and rescue teams are working in the affected areas, where 300,000 sheets, more than 41,500 tents, about 100,000 beds and heating and cooking materials have been sent, as reported by the ‘Daily Sabah’ newspaper.
The earthquake has caused more than 3,380 deaths in Turkey, about 770 in the areas of Syria controlled by the government of Bashar al-Assad and another 780 in rebel-held areas of the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest), according to various balances published during the last hours.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
