On Saturday, rescuers in Turkey rescued a family of five who had been trapped inside their collapsed home for five days following a big earthquake in the border region of Turkey with Syria. However, the death toll was approaching 25,000.
According to HaberTurk, they initially extricated mother and daughter Havva and Fatmagul Aslan from a mound of debris in the hard-hit town of Nurdagi in Gaziantep province. The teams eventually found Hasan Aslan, but he insisted on saving his other daughter Zeynep and son Saltik Bugra first.
The rescuers rejoiced and screamed “God is Great!” when the father was taken out.
A 3-year-old child and her father were recovered from debris in the town of Islahiye, also in Gaziantep province, two hours later, while a 7-year-old girl was saved in the province of Hatay an hour later, about 132 hours after the quake. Despite the frigid weather, the rescues raise the total number of people saved on Saturday to 12.
“Can you tell me what day it is?” According to NTV television, 16-year-old Kamil Can Agas asked his rescuers after being retrieved from the rubble in Kahramanmaras.
Members of the joint search teams of Turkey and Kyrgyz embraced one other, as did the teenager’s cousins, with one of them shouting, “He is out, brother. He is out. He is here..”
The rescues gave glimmers of hope among the tremendous wreckage left by Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake
The rescues gave glimmers of hope among the tremendous wreckage left by Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which toppled thousands of structures, killing over 24,500 people, wounding another 80,000, and displacing millions. Hours later, another quake roughly identical in magnitude and most likely provoked by the first caused much more devastation.
However, not everything went as planned. Early Saturday, rescuers reached a 13-year-old girl trapped inside the rubble of a collapsed building in Hatay province and intubated her. However, she died before medical teams could amputate a limb and release her from the rubble, according to the Hurriyet newspaper.
Indian Army’s medical support team began treating the injured in a temporary field hospital in Iskenderun
Despite the fact that experts suggest imprisoned persons can live for a week or more, the chances of finding more survivors were rapidly dwindling. Rescuers were using thermal cameras to assist spot life within the wreckage, indicating the vulnerability of any remaining survivors.
As more relief arrived, a 99-member detachment from the Indian Army’s medical support team began treating the injured in a temporary field hospital in Iskenderun, a southern city where a big hospital had been demolished.
He was rescued from his collapsed apartment building in the nearby city of Antakya within hours of the Monday quake, he added, wincing in agony. He was freed without receiving proper treatment for his injuries after receiving basic first aid. A person was wheeled into the hospital in a wheelchair, his left leg seriously bruised, with contusions, and lacerations.
On Saturday, a massive impromptu graveyard was being built on the outskirts of Antakya. Backhoes and bulldozers dug pits in a field on the city’s northeastern outskirts, as trucks and ambulances loaded with black corpse bags arrived in droves. Soldiers directing traffic on a busy nearby road advised drivers not to take photographs.
The hundreds of graves were marked with plain wooden planks laid vertically in the ground and spaced no more than three feet (one meter) apart.
United Nation refugee agency said up to 5.3 million people have been displaced in Syria
The violence has isolated many areas of Syria, complicating relief efforts. According to the UN, the first earthquake-related aid convoy crossed from Turkey into northwestern Syria on Friday, the day after an aid cargo scheduled prior to the tragedy arrived.
According to the United Nations refugee agency, up to 5.3 million people have been displaced in Syria.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the chief of the World Health Organization, arrived in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, delivering 35 tons of medical equipment, according to state news agency SANA. He stated that another plane carrying 30 tons of medical equipment will arrive in the following days.
