Antakya, Turkey (AFP) – More than 25,000 people have died in Turkey and Syria following an earthquake five days ago.
The Turkish president on Saturday brought his country’s death toll to 21,848, while in Syria the reported death toll in government- and rebel-controlled areas was 3,553.
Sanliurfa city president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 80,104 people were injured in Turkey alone. However, more than 130 hours after the earthquake, several survivors are still being dragged from the rubble.
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Antakya, Turkey (AP) – Turkish rescuers on Saturday said five of them survived five days in a collapsed house after a powerful earthquake hit the vast border region between Turkey and Syria. I rescued my family. But the death toll brought him closer to 25,000.
They first rescued a mother and daughter Havva and a fatmuggle her Aslan from a rubble heap in Nurdagi city, Gaziantep province, HaberTurk reported. The team later contacted his father, Hassan Aslan, but he insisted on rescuing his other daughter Zeynep and his son Saltik Bugra first.
Later, when the father was taken out, the rescuers cheered, “God is great!”
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Two hours later, a 3-year-old girl and her father were dragged from the rubble in Islahiye city, also in Gaziantep province, and an hour later, a 7-year-old girl was rescued in Hatay province. hours after the earthquake. The rescue brings the number of people rescued on Saturday to 12, but hopes are fading amid freezing temperatures.
“What day is it today?” 16-year-old Kamil Khan Agas asked rescuers after being pulled from the rubble of Karamanmaras, according to NTV Television.
Members of the search team, a mixture of Turks and Kyrgyz, hugged as did their teenage cousins, one of whom exclaimed:
“He’s out, brother. He’s out. he is here “
Relief aid comes amid devastating devastation after Monday’s 7.8-magnitude quake collapsed thousands of buildings, killed more than 24,500, injured another 80,000 and left millions homeless. brought a radiance of joy. Another tremor of about the same magnitude was probably caused by the first quake and caused further destruction h
But it didn’t all go well. Rescuers reached out and intubated her 13-year-old girl in the rubble of a collapsed building in Hatay province early Saturday morning. But she died before medical teams could amputate her limbs and rescue her from the rubble, her Hürriyet newspaper reported. Experts say those trapped can live for a week or more, but the chances of finding more survivors quickly diminish. identified life. This is a sign of weakness for all remaining survivors.
As relief supplies continued to arrive, his 99-man squad of the Indian Army Medical Relief Team began treating the wounded at a makeshift field hospital in the southern city of Iskenderun, where the main hospital had been demolished. .
One man, Sukru Canbulat, was taken to hospital in a wheelchair with severe bruises, bruises and lacerations on his left leg.
Grimace in pain, he said he was rescued from his collapsed home in the nearby city of Antakya within hours of Monday’s quake.
