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Rescue and search work continues in Turkey. Miraculously, 115 hours after the earthquake, a pregnant woman and her daughter were rescued from the rubble. It happened in Gaziantep.
Terrible earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria claimed tens of thousands of lives. They have already been dubbed the “catastrophe of the century.” Despite the terrible numbers, rescuers continue to tirelessly fight for the lives of everyone who could be trapped in the concrete traps of destroyed buildings.
The woman spent 115 hours under the rubble
Thus, groups of special police operations and search and rescue of various non-governmental organizations dismantled the rubble of one of the houses in Gaziantep. On Khilmi Kutlubay Street, they heard sounds that indicated that someone else was alive under the destroyed building. As it turned out,Zahide Kaya was pregnant in concrete captivity. Fortunately, they managed to get her out.
The woman was immediately taken to the hospital. And her relatives thanked the governor of Sirnak, Osman Bilgin, who was in the area at the time when Zahide Kaya was rescued. It should be noted that soon it was possible to pull out alive and her 6-year-old daughter Kyubra from under the rubble.
We managed to save a 10-day-old baby
The day before, we said that Turkish rescuers managed to get a child and his mother out of the rubble. It happened in the province of Hatay in the south of the country. A mother and her 10-day-old son were trapped in a concrete trap for more than 90 hours. Luckily, their health is now safe.
A 10-day-old boy named Yagiz spent almost half of his life stuck under concrete slabs before being pulled out of the ruins of the southern Turkish province of Hatay, the publication states.
A Ukrainian woman with her son was taken out from under the rubble
It also became known that rescuers managed to release a Ukrainian woman, as well as her 4-year-old son. Fortunately, the life of Elena and her son is no longer in danger. According to doctors, they are in a satisfactory condition.
As of 20:53 on February 10, 23,766 earthquake victims were confirmed, Sky News reports. In Turkey, 20,213 people died, and in Syria – 3,553. Search and rescue work continues.
