A 70-year-old woman rescued from the rubble 212 hours after the earthquakes in Turkey

15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Turkish emergency services have managed to bring a 70-year-old woman alive about 212 hours after being buried under the rubble of a destroyed building in the city of Gaziantep, all this after the earthquakes registered last week in the south of the country, near the border with Syria.

Following an intense effort by Turkish search teams in the town of Adiyaman, 70-year-old Fatma Gungor has been rescued from the ruins of a seven-story building after being trapped for 212 hours, before being transferred to a hospital where she is receiving medical attention, as reported by the Turkish state news agency, Anatolia.

After the rescue, Gungor’s relatives – who were waiting around the remains – hugged and thanked the search and rescue teams for bringing the woman alive, who had been buried for almost nine days.

A week after the earthquakes, emergency services continue to search for living people to rescue, a task that becomes more difficult with each passing hour, since the standard time that a human being can go without the intake of water or food in disasters like this is 72 hours.

The earthquake has caused 35,500 deaths in Turkey and more than 3,700 among 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 in recent hours. .