Three survivors, including a 14-year-old teenager, have been rescued from the rubble in Antakya, southern Turkey, more than 260 hours after the earthquakes that devastated the region, Turkish authorities and the press reported today.
Mustafa, 33, and Mehmet, 26, were rescued “261 hours” after the quakes, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on Twitter.
Anyway, you can call Mustafa a few times, but you can also make calls with your phone. Kardeşimiz Mustafa”yı bu kadar iyi görmekten çok mutluyuz. pic.twitter.com/t0jrmH0M6r
– Dr Fahrettin Koca (@drfahrettinkoca) February 16, 2023
Hayat dolu haberler bu gece birbirini izliyor. Kardeşimiz Mehmet Ali, Hatay”da enkaz altından 261″inci saatte kurtarılan ikinci vatandaşımız. I think Sahra Hastanesinde yapıldı. You are a Mustafa Kemal universitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesinde tedavi altında. pic.twitter.com/3WNgR8KkKW
– Dr Fahrettin Koca (@drfahrettinkoca) February 17, 2023
On the television channel CNN Türk, the survivors were Mustafa Avci and Mehmet Ali Sakiroglu.
Meanwhile, about “260 hours” after the quakes, a 14-year-old teenager was also pulled from the rubble of his building in central Antakya, “after intense efforts” by rescue teams, the Turkish minister said.
14 years since Osman sat 260″, yoğun çabaların sonucunda tekrar aramızda. Şu and Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Hastanesinde ilk tıbbi müdahalesi gerçekleştiriliyor. pic.twitter.com/4S5aXp6lMc
– Dr Fahrettin Koca (@drfahrettinkoca) February 16, 2023
Fahrettin Koca said the teenager, named Osman, had to undergo surgery at a hospital in the province, without specifying the severity, but the boy appears to be conscious in the photo published on social networks.
According to the DHA news agency, the two men, Mehmet and Mustafá, were in the rubble of the same building, in the center of Antakya, when they were discovered by the rescue teams. The Turkish minister indicated that both were immediately taken to the hospital.
The last survivors discovered by rescue teams as the search gradually ground to a halt were all found in Hatay province, on the outskirts of Antakya, close to the Syrian border.
Survival rates now seem lower further north in the country, around the quake’s epicenter, in mountainous regions such as Kahramanmaras, and in the regions of Elbistan and Adiyaman, due to snow and low temperatures, dropping to minus 15 at night °C.
According to the most recent data, the two earthquakes – measuring 7.8 and 7.5 on the Richter scale – 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, which occurred on February 6 and whose epicenter was in Turkey, stretches over 100,000 square kilometers and is home to 14 million people.
Source: DN
