Two people were found alive this Thursday among the wreckage of buildings that collapsed in Turkey’s Karamanmaras province, ten days after the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria.
According to Turkish television, one of the survivors, aged 30, was rescued on the spot after several hours of liberation work by rescue teams and transported to a hospital.
This rescue came hours after a 17-year-old teenager was found among the rubble of a building, in the same location, the epicenter of the first of two earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, on February 6, measuring 7.7 and 7.6 degrees of magnitude on the Richter scale.
According to the most recent data, the two earthquakes caused 36,187 deaths and 108,000 injuries in Turkey. About 5,000 people were killed in Syria.
The region hit by the two earthquakes covers 100,000 square kilometers and is home to 14 million people.
Source: DN
