Turkish emergency services have managed to pull a 40-year-old woman alive nearly 170 hours after she was buried under the rubble of a destroyed building in the city of Gaziantep, following last week’s earthquakes in the south of the country near the Syrian border.
After an intense effort by Turkish search teams in the city of Gaziantep, Sibel Kaya, 40, has been rescued from the ruins of a building located in the Islahiye district after 170 hours trapped, and then transferred to a hospital for medical care, according to the Turkish state news agency Anatolia.
A week after the earthquakes, emergency services continue to search for living people to rescue, a task that becomes more difficult as each hour passes, since the standard time a human being can remain without food or water intake in disasters like this is 72 hours.
The earthquake has caused almost 30,000 deaths in Turkey and more than 9,300 between the figures offered by the health authorities of the government of Bashar al-Assad and those of the rebels in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest), according to various balances published during the last hours.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
