Rescuers rescued a woman, Ela, and her two children from a collapsed apartment building in the southern city of Antakya, more than 228 hours after the strong earthquake in Turkey. More than 41,000 people were killed in a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit southeastern Turkey on the border with Syria on Saturday, Archyde.com reported.
Rescuers rescued two women one after another from the rubble of collapsed buildings in the city of Kahramanmaras (Kahramanmaras) near the epicenter on the 15th. The rescue team cheered and hugged each other happily.
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency also reported that 228 hours after the strong earthquake, the woman Ella and her two children were rescued by rescuers from a collapsed apartment in Antakya City on the 15th.
In addition, some disaster victims shared their surviving experiences. Huseyin Berber, a 62-year-old disaster victim, is a diabetic. At the time of the earthquake, he was on the first floor of his home. The refrigerator and cabinets next to him propped up the collapsed wall. Fortunately, there was an armchair to sit on and a rug to keep him warm. Living on the only bottle of water, drinking his own urine after drinking water, he was finally rescued after struggling under the rubble for 187 hours.
“I kept yelling and yelling and yelling and yelling and no one heard me, I shouted until my throat hurt…then someone came in and touched me hands and they pulled me out of there. I came out of a very small hole and it scared me a little bit.”
Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria caused heavy casualties, and millions of people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Many survivors were left homeless in the freezing winter.
As the golden rescue time expires, the hope of survival for the trapped people has become less and less, and the rescue operation is running out, the focus has shifted to assisting the survivors.
As most of the health infrastructure in the disaster area was damaged or unusable by the earthquake, how to prevent people from contracting diseases is a daunting challenge for the health authorities.
Responsible editor: Yu Weining