Turkish emergency teams rescued a father and his five-year-old daughter early Wednesday morning nearly 90 hours after they were buried under the rubble of a destroyed building in Hatay province following Monday’s earthquakes in the south of the country near the Syrian border.
As reported by the Turkish state news agency Anatolia, search and rescue workers have been working for a long number of hours until they have found the whereabouts of the two people in a building in the town of Odabasi.
After the rescue, the father and his daughter were taken to a hospital after receiving first aid, all amid applause for the rescue services.
An hour earlier, emergency services found a seven-year-old boy and his 32-year-old father in Kahramanmaras, who were pulled from the rubble after 89 hours, according to the agency.
The standard time a person can remain alive without food or water intake in disasters like this is 72 hours, so after that time, the work of the emergency services to rescue people alive from under the rubble becomes considerably more complicated.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, has indicated that about 120,000 search and rescue team members — including international teams and NGOs — are working in the affected areas. Large quantities of rescue equipment, meals, basic necessities and psychosocial support groups have been sent to the region.
The earthquake has caused nearly 17,000 deaths in Turkey, 1,262 in the areas of Syria controlled by the government of Bashar al-Assad and another 1,970 in rebel-held areas of Idlib and Aleppo provinces (northwest), according to various balance sheets published during the last hours.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
