New Delhi: After spending nearly 29 hours trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Hatay following the earthquakes that occurred on Monday in the south of the country near the border with Syria, Turkish emergency workers were able to rescue a mother and her six-month-old child on Tuesday. Search and rescue workers heard a voice from the wreckage of an apartment building on a street in the Odabasi district, according to reports from the Turkish state news agency Anatolia. After that, they were able to locate Hulya Yilmaz and her infant.
(VIDEO) A baby and her mother are rescued from under the rubble of a collapsed building in Hatay, Türkiye, 29 hours after the first of two powerful earthquakes that hit the region https://t.co/Ea9ZHpdUwg pic.twitter.com/2TRavDT6Dc
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While search and rescue efforts for potential victims in the area continue, the two rescuers have been transported to a nearby hospital for treatment. At this time, no additional information is available regarding their condition. After a mother and her three children were discovered alive in the rubble of a building 24 hours after the first earthquake of magnitude 7.4 on the Richter scale, the rescue took place.
Also, a 24-year-old woman was found in the rubble of a seven-story building in the province of Kahramanmaras 27 hours after the earthquake, and a 26-year-old man and a three-year-old boy were found alive in the town of Malatya after 22 hours trapped.
According to the “Daily Sabah” newspaper, approximately 13,740 members of the search and rescue teams are working in the affected areas, where 300,000 sheets, more than 41,500 tents, approximately 100,000 beds, and heating and cooking materials have been sent. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) is part of the Turkish Interior Ministry.
According to various balances that have been released in the past few hours, the earthquake has resulted in more than 5,000 deaths in Turkey, approximately 770 deaths in areas of Syria controlled by the government of Bashar al-Assad, and another 780 deaths in rebel-held provinces of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest).
