Four people rescued, including a minor, after spending 116 hours buried by rubble in Turkey

11 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The emergency teams have rescued four people who were buried under rubble in different cities of Turkey about 116 hours after the earthquakes registered on Monday in the south of the country, near the border with Syria, and which have left more than 23,000 dead.

With the help of thermal cameras and audio listening devices, a search and rescue team made up of volunteers found a woman alive under the ruins of a building in the city of Antioquia, according to the agency. Turkish state news, Anatolia.

After hours of work, the Turkish emergency services, with the help of volunteers and NGO staff, managed to open a corridor to get the woman out, who was later transferred to a nearby medical center.

In the city of Kahramanmaras, the center of the earthquakes, an Israeli search and rescue team has managed to get a child alive who had also remained under the rubble for 116 hours.

After the rescue, eight-year-old Ridvan Cakiroglu has been taken to hospital by ambulance.

Just two hours earlier, two people, one of whom was disabled, according to the aforementioned agency, have been rescued from under the ruins of a block of flats in the city of Gaziantep. They have subsequently been transferred to a hospital.

The rescue team that achieved it was made up of Turkish security guards, the gendarmerie and a group of miners, who after three hours of work were able to make their way towards the survivors.

On the fifth day since the earthquakes, the emergency services continue to search for people alive to rescue, a task that becomes more difficult with each passing hour, since the standard time that a human being can remain without the intake of water or food in disasters like this it is 72 hours.

The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Turkish Interior Ministry, has indicated that nearly 160,000 members of search and rescue teams –including international teams and NGOs– are working in the areas. affected. Large amounts of rescue equipment, meals, basic necessities and psychosocial support groups have been sent to the region.

The earthquake has caused more than 20,000 deaths in Turkey and almost 3,500 between the figures offered by the health authorities of the Government of Bashar al Assad and those of the rebels in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest), according to various balances published during the last hours.