A 13-year-old boy was rescued alive this Monday after spending 182 hours trapped in the rubble in the turkish province of Hatay, destroyed by the earthquakes from last Monday.
The rescue of little Kaan, shown live by the station halktvis another of the moving moments generated by the search for survivors in the thousands of destroyed buildings, says a report from the Spanish agency Eph.
Hatay’da bir sokağın hali: Enkazdan adım atılacak yer kalmadı
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Some experts estimate that there may still be as many as 155,000 bodies trapped.
Four hours earlier, a 70-year-old woman and a 26-year-old girl had been rescued alive, after enduring 178 hours, both in Antioquia, the capital of Hatay province.
The earthquakes devastated southeastern Turkey, killing more than 31,000 people in this country and another 3,500 in Syria.
In the province of Adiyaman, further north, a six-year-old girl was also saved this morning, after 176 hours in the rubble.
According to experts, the low temperatures, which these days have been close to zero even in the province of Hatay, the southernmost of those affected by the earthquake, can favor survival because they delay dehydration.
Almost 26 thousand dead by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
Most of the rescues in the last two days, which the Turkish press describes as “miraculous”, occurred in Hatay, one of the areas with the highest level of destruction as it was located right on a geological fault, despite its distance from the epicenter. of the earthquake.
A Cuban medical brigade made up of 31 members arrived in Turkey this Sunday to help assist the victims. He belongs to the Henry Reeve international contingent, specialized in assisting in disaster situations and epidemics, according to the island’s Ministry of Public Health.
