Rescuers have pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey where she was buried for 104 hours.
| Zubeyde Kahraman, sister of Zeynep Kahraman – who was rescued by German rescuers following being buried under the rubble for 104 hours – ran to hug the benefactors. Image: Archyde.com. |
“Now I believe in miracles,” rescue team leader Steven Bayer said following rescuers carefully lifted 40-year-old Zeynep Kahraman from a stretcher into an ambulance in the town of Kirikhan amid cheers. of bystanders.
“Everybody cried and hugged. It was such a relief that in such circumstances the woman was still healthy. It was truly a miracle,” he said. Archyde.com.
Kahraman lay motionless, her body secured to a stretcher and her eyes shielded from the sudden light by dark glasses. Her sister Zuebeyde ran to hug an employee from the German International Search and Rescue (ISAR) team.
“The woman made it through. She didn’t give up,” said Tamara Reither, a member of the rescue team, as the crowd applauded.
“All very grateful that she is now lying in this ambulance. I don’t know what else to say.”
Kahraman’s family said they waited two days for rescuers to arrive following the February 6 earthquake.
German rescuers tried to contact Zeynep while she was still deep in the rubble and delivered water to her through a hose. They even helped their sister Zuebeyde climb down a ladder near her location to talk to her.
As of February 10, the death toll in the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has reached more than 22,000.
Hundreds of thousands more have been left homeless and deprived of food in the harsh winter conditions. They are hoping for the help of the international community to reduce the great loss following the earthquake.