"You are our hero." A Turkish celebration of Surrey saved a woman and her husband from the rubble of the earthquake

A modern Syrian youth topped the Turkish street after he helped save a Turkish woman and her husband bravely from under the rubble following the violent earthquake in the eastern Turkish province of Alazig Friday.

A video clip spread on the social networking sites of the Turkish lady Dordana Aiden in the hospital, and she recounted the heroism shown by the Syrian young man Mahmoud Al-Othman to save her and her husband from the rubble of their house in the Sorsuru neighborhood in Alazig, without paying attention to the wounds sustained in his hands.

"The young Mahmoud, who saved my life, is one of the Syrians whom we blame for everything. He dug his fingers through the rubble until he got me out," said the Turkish lady, heartily.

Dordaneh continued her speech in the video: "I will not forget that young man as long as I am alive, and I will search for him wherever he is after my discharge from the hospital ... Mahmoud is a civilian youth, not from rescue crews ... Nevertheless, he managed to get me out from under the rubble with his fingers torn from the pits ".

After the video spread on social platforms, the hashtag: #Suriyeli_Mahmut (Mahmoud_Suriy), topped the trend on Twitter in Turkey, where participants described the hashtag Mahmoud as a "hero, savior and brave", and other attributes depicting his action.

Mahmoud came to the southern Turkish province of Hatay two years ago from the Syrian province of Hama, and three months ago he moved to Alazig to study the university.

The Syrian youth, told Anadolu Agency, that the earthquake occurred when he got out of work and was on his way to exercise, to head immediately after the earthquake ended to the place where it was destroyed and he hears the voices of people there.

He added: "I heard the voice of that woman and her husband, I entered (the demolished house) and into the hands of the lamp and then I called on some young men to help me in this matter .. First we removed the man from under the rubble and after that I started to remove the woman and removed many of the things that fell over her."

He continued: "When I saw her, the rubble fell on her feet and she could not move, so she started removing that rubble until her feet came out and then the woman was taken out and taken to hospital."

On the wounds on his arm and hands, Mahmoud said: "They are unimportant and minor wounds ... The important thing is their survival ... After the earthquake my phone was also lost, but it is not important ... For me what is important is the survival of these people."

Mahmoud used his phone at the scene as a lamp, and the Turkish lady and her husband had realized that the light of the phone could help them survive, so Mahmoud says that this phone has a very special place for him.

Touching meeting
The Anatolia Agency gathered the Syrian young man with a Turkish woman and her husband, who moved to their village after their house was completely destroyed by the earthquake. Dordana's tears poured down with his vision, and she said to him: "You are our hero."

When she saw the wounds on the hands and arms of Al-Othman, Dordana wept, and she said to him after learning that Mahmoud’s mother was in Syria: “Do not be sad for your mother and sister and I will not leave you after today.”

About the moments she spent under the rubble, Dordana said: "My husband and I were under the rubble, we hugged each other and did not imagine that we would get out alive from there."

The lost phone has become a torch of hope
"When we saw the light of the phone, my husband whistled and asked for help. Mahmoud saved my husband first, then pulled me out of the rubble, when I saw blood bleeding from his hands but Mahmoud was afraid of me from shattered glass."

And he added: "Mahmoud is our hero, and since I got out of the rubble and I ask my husband about that young man who saved us, everyone thought that I was asking about my real children, but I knew that my children are with their grandmother."

For his part, the husband, Aiden Aiden, said that Mahmoud made double efforts to save him from the rubble.

He added: "If we were Mahmoud's place, we probably would not have made all this effort. When I saw the light of Mahmoud's phone, I started screaming and asking for help, then we realized that we would survive from under the rubble, and after Mahmoud removed the rubble from above me, I managed to survive with his help, and then he started with help my wife".

He continued: "We thought that the rescue period was short, and we later learned that Mahmoud made an effort for three and a half hours to save my wife, and after he saved my wife, Mahmoud went to help others, and yesterday we went to the ruins in the hope of meeting him."

An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck the state of Alazig (east) on Friday evening, and was felt by residents of several neighboring countries. The death toll from the earthquake reached 35, while the number of injured exceeded 1,600.