Catastro Aya and the orphaned children of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey: "You have to reunite them with their families"
Two little brothers and their mother are rescued from the rubble after the earthquake in Turkey
The death toll from Monday's brutal earthquake in Turkey and Syria
now exceeds 25,000.
Most of them, 21,848, have been registered in the first country, according to data updated at noon this Saturday;
the rest, up to 3,553, in Syria.
The counterpoint to this devastating balance is that, at least in Turkey, the rescue teams have rescued this day survivors who
had been under the rubble for more than 120 hours
.
Turkish rescue teams have released a two-month-old baby this Saturday,
128 hours
after the devastating earthquakes of last Monday.
The baby was rescued from a building that had collapsed from tremors in
Hatay province.
It is not the only rescue that has taken place in the last hours despite the fact that the chances of finding more survivors are fading.
A
13-year-old boy
was also freed from the ruins of his building in Hatay after also spending 128 hours under the rubble, Anadolu Agency reported.
In the city of
Nurdag
, in the province of Gaziantep, rescue teams managed to rescue five members of a family alive who had spent 129 hours buried in the ruins.
The specialists first rescued the mother and one of the daughters and then located the father, who insisted that they release two other
daughters trapped
nearby first.
This morning, Masallah Çiçek
, a 55-year-old woman, was rescued alive early Saturday from the ruins of her apartment in Diyarbakir, 122 hours after the earthquake that shook ten provinces in the country's southeast on Monday.
The Anadolu news agency reports that the woman had injuries and
has been hospitalized
, while rescuers continued their work in search of another possible survivor under the same building.
Another rescue was broadcast live by Turkish television channels in the early morning, when
a 70-year-old woman
was freed alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, 121 hours after the earthquake.
However, hopes that these "miracles" will continue are diminishing with each passing minute and the death toll now stands at 20,318, with
more than 80,000 injured
, according to the latest count by the AFAD emergency situation agency.
Monday's 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes were centered in Kahramanmaras province and affected more than
13 million people in 10 provinces
.
It is feared that tens of thousands of victims are still under the rubble in a region the size of a European country like Hungary.
Despite the fact that more than
100,000 rescuers
and emergency personnel work in the area, its enormous size, the high degree of destruction, the more than a thousand registered aftershocks and the cold complicate the situation.
Search and rescue efforts are continuing in various locations in the hope of finding survivors, but in some areas
rescue efforts have stopped
and teams have begun to remove rubble.
Marines participate in the rescue of a child
The Spanish marines have participated in the early hours of this Saturday in the rescue of a seven-year-old boy alive among the rubble of one of the buildings collapsed in the downtown area of Iskenderun
during
the earthquake that devastated Turkey last Monday.
The Spanish military were collaborating in the work of cleaning and clearing the building when the child was heard, who
had been buried for five days
, although the final extraction was carried out by a Turkish team, sources from the Ministry of Defense have confirmed.
As recounted by a Marine from the
7th Company of the Second Landing Battalion
who participated along with some thirty colleagues throughout yesterday and until this morning in the rescue, "the situation was a bit chaotic, since it was the fifth day after the earthquake and the chances of finding someone alive dropped drastically.
However, this changed when "after one of the singular silences that were made in search of any sign of life, a sound was heard in response to the question asked by the Turkish rescue teams: 'We are the rescue team, if someone hear
him yell, if he can't three taps around him
'".
"After what happened, they began to enter the different cracks that we had cleared so that they could access the interior," explained the marine.
It took around
20 minutes to get
to where the child was.
Andalusian firefighters rescue a trapped minor
Andalusian firefighters have rescued a minor who was trapped under the rubble alive, which has been possible after
ten hours of intense work
and in collaboration with the Tümad mining company.
The members of the team of the non-governmental organization
'Firefighters for the World'
, which includes several members of the Provincial Consortium of the Malaga Provincial Council along with others from the Huelva Consortium and the Huelva City Council, have managed to save the boy.
The firefighters have initially managed to offer water to the minor when he was still buried and, after using machinery to
destroy and remove the rubble
, they have managed to free him.
Three contingents made up of
eight members
of the Malaga Provincial Fire Department Consortium traveled to Turkey to support the search for survivors after the earthquake that affected the southeast of the country and northern Syria.
Malaga firefighters, who have already intervened in tragedies that have occurred in other countries, are provided with
rescue dogs
and various specialized material.
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