In the bitter cold weather, relief workers continue their race against time to try to rescue survivors of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck at dawn on Monday in southeastern Turkey and neighboring Syria.
While rescue workers continue to search for survivors, the camera lenses have documented touching stories of saving a number of children over the past few hours.
A woman and her child were rescued 45 hours after the devastating earthquake (Anatolia)
live baby
Today, Wednesday, Turkish search and rescue teams managed to save a one-year-old baby, 53 hours after the earthquake that hit the south of the country.
The infant was under the rubble of a 5-storey building in the YeniĹźehir neighborhood of Sanliurfa state, and he was taken out alive after more than two full days under the rubble, to be immediately transferred to the hospital.
A one-year-old baby was miraculously rescued 53 hours after earthquakes hit southern Turkey
đź•™ 2 days gone by.
No food, no drink
🚼 Toddler is from SE Sanliurfa province
🏚️ Rescued from under 5-story building https://t.co/Pybe6lU8ec pic.twitter.com/eoiDEB4QFO
— ANADOLU AGENCY (@anadoluagency) February 8, 2023
Under the rubble
In the same state of Sanliurfa, Turkish search and rescue teams succeeded today, Wednesday, in rescuing a child who was stuck under the rubble of a collapsed house, 47 hours after the earthquake that struck the south of the country.
The rescue team was able to pull out the 6-year-old Ahmed Abak from under the rubble of his house, which collapsed as a result of the earthquake, to be quickly transferred to the hospital.
Firefighters rescue little boy Emin, who was trapped under rubble in TĂĽrkiye's southern province of Kahramanmaras https://t.co/AlJD0ttmJr pic.twitter.com/HeROKVirP6
— ANADOLU AGENCY (@anadoluagency) February 7, 2023
similar operations
Despite the different places, the details are similar in the places hit by the earthquake. A firefighting team - consisting of 4 people - rescued the 6-year-old girl, Hajar Qajmaz, from under the rubble of her house in the state of Adi Yaman, in the south of the country.
The team explained that the child was taken out alive 47 hours after the earthquake, and that the same team had rescued her mother 3 hours before, and they were taken to the hospital.
mother and her child
44 hours after the earthquake, search teams in the Turkish state of Hatay managed to rescue a Syrian mother and her child from under the rubble of a collapsed building.
Camera lenses documented how the rescue teams were able to pull out the woman, Syria, and her two-year-old daughter from under the rubble of the building in the Iskenderun district of Hatay, southern Turkey.
A mother and her two-year-old daughter were rescued in Iskenderun district in TĂĽrkiye's southern province of Hatay nearly 44 hours after the earthquake https://t.co/AlJD0ttmJr pic.twitter.com/nZ2B5XxMRd
— ANADOLU AGENCY (@anadoluagency) February 8, 2023
Touching scenes
For his part, the mayor of Istanbul, Akram Imamoglu, published - through his account on the Instagram application - impressive scenes of Turkish paramedics saving a Syrian child in Antakya, southern Turkey.
According to the video, which Oglu published on Tuesday, Turkish paramedics appeared as they provided water to a Syrian child while he was among the rubble, after his residential building was destroyed as a result of the earthquake that struck southern Turkey.
The paramedics tried to keep the child alive by giving him sips of water, according to the video.
The mayor of Istanbul attached the scene to a comment saying: "Our search and rescue team rescued the Syrian citizen, Muhammad Ahmed, from under the rubble in Antakya."
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Innocence and spontaneity
A video clip circulating on social media in Turkey showed the moment a Turkish child was pulled out from under the rubble, to wake up from his deep sleep, and he did not know what had happened to him.
Turkish platforms published the video, which showed the innocence and spontaneity of the child at the moment he was pulled out from under the rubble, with clear signs of drowsiness, to ask the rescue teams a question, saying, "What is happening?"
The civil defense men answered him, "You are a hero, son.. I was asleep. Good morning, hero."
- Ne oluyor ya, no oluyor?
- (AFAD görevlisi) Sen kahramansın oğlum…
Enkaz altında uyurken kurtarılan çocuk, ekipler kendisine ulaşınca böyle seslendi… pic.twitter.com/6jXdYzLNc6
— TRT HABER (@trthaber) February 7, 2023