Rescuers pull several more survivors out of quake rubble in Türkiye's southern provinces
An 18-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a building in southern Türkiye, the third rescue on Tuesday and some 198 hours after a devastating earthquake as aid workers shifted focus to those across Türkiye and Syria left homeless in the bitter cold.
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- Published Date: 03:38 | 14 February 2023
- Modified Date: 04:43 | 14 February 2023
Muhammed Cafer, whose rescue was reported by broadcaster CNN Turk, could be seen moving his fingers as he was carried away, after surviving the huge Feb. 6 earthquake and major aftershock hours later.
Rescuers pull several more survivors out of quake rubble in Türkiye's south on nineth day of post-quake efforts;
A woman was rescued from the rubble of a building in the southern Turkish city of Hatay on Tuesday, some 203 hours after a devastating earthquake struck the region, Turkish media reported.
Rescuers pull several more survivors out of quake rubble in Türkiye's south on nineth day of post-quake efforts;
Earlier reports said the rescued person was a man, but later state broadcaster TRT reported a woman was pulled out from under the rubble in the city.
It was one of the deadliest tremors in Türkiye's modern history, with the combined death toll in Türkiye and neighbouring Syria now exceeding 37,000.
A little earlier, rescuers pulled two brothers alive from the ruins of an apartment block in Turkey's Kahramanmaraş province, who Anadolu news agency named as 17-year-old Muhammed Enes Yeninar and his brother, 21-year-old Baki Yeninar.
Rescuers again worked through the night to rescue people clinging to life. But some teams have started scaling back operations as low temperatures reduced the already slim chances of survival.
Earlier on Tuesday, a boy and a man were saved in hard-hit Kahramanmaraş, while rescuers were still trying to reach a grandmother, mother and daughter from one family who appeared to have survived in the broken masonry of a building.
In the southern Turkish city of Antakya, excavators began tearing down heavily damaged buildings and clearing rubble in one devastated residential area.
Urbanisation Minister Murat Kurum said some 42,000 buildings had either collapsed, were in urgent need of demolition, or were severely damaged across 10 cities.
The death toll from powerful earthquakes that struck Türkiye last week has risen to 31,974, the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said on Tuesday.
It said that nearly 195,962 victims have been evacuated from the quake zone in southern Turkey.
The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 tremors last week were centered in Kahramanmaraş and struck nine other provinces -- Hatay, Gaziantep, Adiyaman, Malatya, Adana, Diyarbakir, Kilis, Osmaniye, and Şanliurfa.
More than 13 million people have been affected by the devastating quakes.
Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, also felt the strong tremors that struck Türkiye in the space of fewer than 10 hours.
More than 249,000 search and rescue personnel are currently working in the field, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said.
A total of 9,315 foreign personnel from 80 nations are currently working in the disaster zone, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Monday.