Turkish emergency crews rescued a mother and her two-year-old daughter early Wednesday morning nearly 44 hours after they were buried under the rubble of a destroyed building in the town of Kahramanmaras following Monday’s earthquakes in the south of the country near the Syrian border.
As reported by the Turkish state news agency Anatolia, search and rescue workers heard cries for help in the wreckage of one of the destroyed buildings on a street in the Mustafa Kemal district.
After meticulously removing the rubble, rescuers reached Imed Sabha, a 33-year-old Syrian mother, and her two-year-old daughter Vafe Sabha. After their rescue, both were taken to the ambulance on a stretcher and then transferred to a nearby hospital.
Hours earlier, firefighters from the Turkish city of Kayseri – located 400 kilometers north of the Syrian border – who had come to Kahramanmaras to assist in the rescue efforts, managed to pull Emin, a six-year-old boy who was under the wreckage of a destroyed building in the Onikisubat district of the town, from the rubble.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Turkish Interior Ministry, has indicated that some 60,200 search and rescue team members — including international teams and NGOs — are working in the affected areas. Large quantities of rescue equipment, meals, basic necessities and psychosocial support groups have been sent to the region.
The earthquake has caused nearly 6,000 deaths in Turkey, 1,250 in the areas of Syria controlled by the government of Bashar al-Assad and another 1,020 in rebel-held areas of Idlib and Aleppo provinces (northwest), according to various balance sheets published during the last hours.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
