Two women rescued from the rubble after 122 hours in Turkey

11 Feb. () –

The Turkish emergency services have managed to bring a 70-year-old woman and another 55-year-old woman alive about 122 hours after being buried under the rubble of two destroyed buildings in the cities of Kahramanmaras and Diyarbakir, all after the earthquakes registered on Monday in the south of the country, near the border with Syria.

Following an intense effort by Turkish search teams in the city of Kahramanmaras, 70-year-old Violet Tabak has been rescued from the ruins of a building located in the Onikisubat district after being trapped for 112 hours, before being transferred to a hospital for medical attention, Turkish state news agency Anatolia reported.

At the same time but 400 kilometers to the east, in the city of Diyarbakir, a 55-year-old woman was being pulled out from under the rubble of the destroyed building in which she had spent more than five days locked up.

The rescue work carried out for hours by the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) and other Turkish emergency services in the Yenisehir district has led them to rescue Masallah Çiçek, who had multiple injuries and has been taken to a medical center.

On the sixth day since 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 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.