9 days without hope for life! This woman with children was rescսed from the rubble
A woman and her two young children were discovered alive in Turkey after surviving under the rubble for nine days following last week’s devastating earthquake, as drone footage showed the Turkish city of Hatay reduced to dust.
Ela and her two children were saved in Hatay, one of Turkey’s ten southern provinces devastated by the February 6 earthquakes that killed over 41,000 people in Turkey and neighboring Syria. They were trapped beneath the rubble for 228 hours.
Hundreds of rescuers were seen working to save the family at the site of several collapsed buildings. The infants were carefully wrapped in blankets and carried away on stretchers before being rushed to the hospital in ambulances.
A father and his 15-year-old daughter, as well as a 42-year-old woman, were miraculously saved overnight. Emergency workers were seen cheering with joy and relief in footage broadcast across the country.
Such scenes are becoming increasingly rare in Turkey and Syria, but officials say they are determined to continue until every trapped survivor is found.
Meanwhile, the region’s death toll has surpassed 41,000, and many survivors are enduring near-freezing winter temperatures after being displaced by the devastation in both countries’ cities.
‘We will continue our work until the last citizen is removed from beneath the collapsed buildings,’ says the team.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said late Tuesday after a cabinet meeting at the country’s disaster agency headquarters.
Despite the fact that it has been a week since the disaster, the true magnitude of the quake has yet to be fully realized. Drone footage from Hatay on Wednesday, however, provided a sense of the devastation.
As rescue workers continued their search for people, the drone flew over dozens of piles of rubble that were once multi-story apartment buildings.
The footage showed entire neighborhoods being leveled to the ground, demonstrating the futility of finding survivors.
Earlier, Syrian-born Seher, 15, and her father Faez Ghanam were rescued late Tuesday night in Hatay, southern Turkey, some 210 hours after the first quake.
Seher and Faez were seen on video being carried away from the ruins of their home on stretchers wrapped in gold foil. Seher was wearing an oxygen mask over her nose and mouth, and her head was being supported by a rescuer.
Fatma Gungor, 77, was also rescued from the rubble of a seven-story apartment building in the city of Adiyaman.
