Mexico City, Mexico- More than 100 hours a Turkish family spent under the rubble of their home after the earthquake that devastated their country, when rescuers managed to get them out.
Although hope of finding survivors fades after 72 hours – more than 90% of earthquake survivors are rescued in the next three days – another miraculous rescue took place in Turkey this Friday.
The event took place in the city of Nurdag, in the province of Gaziantep. There the rescue teams managed to rescue the five members of a family alive.
The specialists first rescued the mother and one of the daughters and then located the father, who insisted that they release two other daughters trapped nearby first, he explains. Time.
AP News reported that people took refuge in a small space that was created in the rubble.
In the crowd that gathered around the rescue was Furkan Oktay, the only member of the family who was not in the house during the incident. With tears in his eyes, the young man watched as his brothers and parents were brought out alive.
Other surprising rescues
Anadolu Agency reported that also in Nurdag, a six-month pregnant woman was rescued alive after spending 115 hours under a tumble of rubble. And an hour later, they saved her six-year-old daughter. On the other hand, they saved a teenager who survived by drinking her own urine.
Although there are many news of hopeful rescues, probably the most symbolic is that of Ayawhich in Arabic means “sign of God”, a baby who was born under the rubble of the five-story building where her family lived and who buried her mother, her brothers and her father.
Against all odds, the girl was born healthy, without spinal damage, and survived for about 10 hours after a earthquake of magnitude 7.8 will destroy the lives of more than 26 thousand people in the northern Syria and southeastern Turkey.
Rescuers discovered the girl Monday afternoon as they were digging for survivors. The baby lay next to the body of her mother, Afraa Abu Hadiya, connected by her umbilical cord.
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