A 13-year-old boy has been rescued alive after 182 hours under the rubble of a building in Turkey’s Hatay province, which collapsed just a week ago during the devastating earthquakes that ravaged Turkey and Syria.
The rescue of the young Kaan was broadcast live on the local Halk TV station and is one more that continues to occur drop by drop among the thousands of buildings that collapsed after the earthquakes and their aftershocks, and experts estimate that up to 155,000 victims They will be under the rubble.
Four hours earlier, a 70-year-old woman and another 26-year-old had been rescued alive after 178 hours of resistance. Both cases occurred in Antakya, the capital of Hatay province.
Further north, in Adiyaman province, a six-year-old girl was also rescued on Monday morning after 176 hours in the rubble.
According to experts, the low temperatures, which these days have been close to zero degrees, even in the province of Hatay -the southernmost of those affected by the earthquake- can favor survival, because they delay dehydration.
Most of the rescues in the last two days, which the Turkish press describes as “miraculous”, have occurred in Hatay, one of the areas with the highest level of destruction as it is located on a geological fault, despite the distance from the earthquake epicenter.
According to data released this Monday by the World Health Organization (WHO), the earthquakes that devastated southern Turkey and northwestern Syria a week ago caused at least 40,943 deaths -31,643 deaths in Turkey and some 9,300 in Syria-.
In Syria, a country ravaged by a civil war since 2011, according to the WHO, some 4,800 people were killed in areas controlled by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, while in areas controlled by rebels, some 4,500 were killed.
Source: TSF
