Turkey’s emergency services rescue six people 68 hours after earthquakes

9 Feb. () –

Turkish rescue teams managed to rescue six people, including three children, about 68 hours after they were buried under the rubble of a destroyed building in the city of Kirijan after the attacks. earthquakes registered on Monday in the south of the country, near the border with Syria.

After hearing sounds under the rubble during the day, the Turkish National Medical Rescue Team has worked all day to remove the rubble to finally find the whereabouts of six people who were still alive 68 hours after the first of earthquakes, as reported by the Turkish state agency, Anatolia.

Hours earlier, the Turkish emergency services managed to pull Saziye Kalaagzi, an 80-year-old woman from the rubble who was under a destroyed five-story building in the city of Eroglu, just ten kilometers from the Syrian border.

The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Turkish Interior Ministry, has indicated that about 98,100 members of the search and rescue teams -including international teams and NGOs- work in the areas. affected.

The death toll from the earthquakes registered on Monday in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria, has already exceeded 15,000, according to the balances published to date, which include more than 12,000 deaths on Turkish territory, 1,260 dead in the areas of Syria under the control of the Government of Bashar al Assad and another 1,730 in the areas of the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest) that are in rebel hands.