Three people, including a child, were found alive under rubble in Hatay province.in southern Turkey, 13 days after the earthquake that shook that country and Syria on February 6 and left more than 41,000 dead.
One of them, however, died within minutes of the rescue, the private media channel NTV reported.
The other two, one of them a child, pulled from the rubble 296 hours after the quake, were taken to hospital, according to the AFP news agency. The age and identity of those rescued are unknown at this time.
The search for survivors among the rubble continues relentlessly and among the international teams that arrived in the disaster area with this objective is an Argentine brigade of 28 White Helmets specialists and the Argentine Federal Police.
In the case of the people found alive this Saturday, they were located by Turkish and Kyrgyz relief teams, according to local media.
Another rescued man, a 45-year-old man, was found on Friday night, 278 hours after the quake, in Hatay province, near the border with Syria, where the city of Antakya is located, which was completely destroyed.
There is less and less hope of finding survivors in the towns near the epicenter of the quake, further north.
In these mountainous regions, such as Kahramanmaras, Elbistan and Adiyaman, where snowfall occurred, it was 15 degrees below zero at night, AFP teams found.
There is less and less hope of finding survivors in the towns near the epicenter of the earthquake, further north
The 7.8 magnitude quake has killed more than 41,000 people in Turkey and neighboring Syria, according to the latest official balances.
They found dead Christian Atsu
Meanwhile, Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu, a former Malaga player, was found dead under the rubble of the building where he lived, which collapsed in the earthquake, his agent announced.
“Atsu’s lifeless body was found under the rubble. They’re still getting their things out. His phone was also found,” said his agent Murat Uzunmehmet, quoted by the Turkish private agency DHA.
Among the fatalities is the Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu, a current player for the Turkish club Hatay and who also played for Chelsea and Newcastle in England, aged 31. He was reportedly under the rubble of the Rönesans residence, a 12-story tower that collapsed in the quake.
The Ghana Embassy in Turkey and the Ghana Football Federation initially claimed that the attacker had been found alive, but that information turned out to be false.
