Several children were pulled alive from rubble in Turkey and Syria on Friday, five days after the earthquake that killed more than 23,000 people.
On both sides of the border, thousands of homes are destroyed and rescuers are intensifying their efforts to search for survivors, even as the crucial 72-hour window for finding survivors has closed.
an 18 month old baby
However, on Friday, a six-year-old boy, Moussa Hmeidi, was pulled alive from the rubble, to cheers, in a northwestern Syrian town of Jandairis, an AFP journalist said. He was in shock and wounded in the face.
In southern Turkey, in Antakya, “at the 105th hour” after the quake, rescuers pulled an 18-month-old baby, Yusuf Huseyin, alive from the rubble of a building, then, twenty minutes later, his brother Muhammed Huseyin. he told the NTV television channel.
Two hours earlier, Zeynep Ela Parlak, a three-year-old girl, had already been rescued in this city destroyed by the earthquake.
Pregnant mother and daughter rescued
In the Gaziantep region (southeast), Spanish soldiers also rescued a mother and her two children from the rubble on Friday afternoon.
In Nurdagi, in the same province, Zahide Kaya, six months pregnant, was pulled out alive after spending some 115 hours under a pile of rubble, according to Anadolu Agency. An hour earlier, her six-year-old daughter Kubra had also been rescued.
The situation, aggravated by the freezing cold, is such that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in an armed struggle against the Turkish army since 1984, decided on Friday “not to carry out any operation as long as the Turkish state does not attack”. said Cemil Bayik, an official quoted by the Firat agency, which is close to the PKK.
“Thousands of our people are still under the rubble. (…) Each one must mobilize all their means”.
Source: BFM TV
