Among those rescued is a child who spent almost 300 hours buried in the rubble of the earthquake
Three people, including a child, were found alive under the rubble on Saturday in the province of Hatay, in southern Turkey, 13 days after the earthquake that shook that country and Syria on Monday, February 6. One of them, however, died in the minutes after the rescue, according to the private channel NTV. The other two, one of them a child, pulled from the rubble 296 hours after the quake They have been taken to the hospital.
The age and identity of those rescued are unknown for now. Rescue efforts were carried out by Turkish and Kyrgyz relief teams, according to Turkish media reports. another rescueda 45-year-old man, had been found on Friday night, 278 hours after the quake, in Hatay province, near the border with Syria, where the city of Antakya is located, which was completely destroyed.
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There is less and less hope of finding survivors in the towns near the epicenter of the earthquake, further north. In these mountainous regions, such as Kahramanmaras, Elbistan and Adiyaman, where snowfall occurred, it was 15 degrees below zero at night, AFP teams found.
The two earthquakes of February 6 (the first of magnitude 7.8 and the second of 7.5) have left more than 45,000 dead in Turkey and neighboring Syriaaccording to the latest official balances.