Wednesday, November 1, 2023

3 People Rescued 13 Days After Turkey-Syria Earthquakes

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In a miraculous rescue, Turkish rescuers have pulled three people, including a child, alive from the rubble of an apartment block in Antakya, Hatay province, 13 days after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria. The man, woman and child had been buried for 296 hours under the Kanatli apartment block.

Footage showed teams carrying a man and a woman out on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance, while medics treated the child. Ambulances were on standby for possible other rescues from the same building.

The earthquake has claimed the lives of 45,000 people in both countries, with 39,672 fatalities in Turkey alone. Despite being stuck for so long under the rubble in freezing weather, teams have been finding survivors all week.

On Friday, a 45-year-old man was pulled from the rubble, several hours after three people, including a 14-year-old boy, were discovered alive. Sadly, Ghanaian football player Christian Atsu was found dead under the building where he lived in southern Turkey. His Turkish club, Hatayspor, paid tribute to him on Twitter.

International rescue teams have now left the earthquake zone, but domestic teams are still searching through flattened buildings in the hope of finding more survivors who have defied the odds.

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