Turkey: They are searching the wreckage for the Greek couple – The appeal of a relative and the request of EMAK

Efforts are ongoing to locate a Greek couple aged 65 and 62 (with dual citizenship), missing in Antioch.

Speaking to ERT, the nephew of the missing, Basel Menounet, appealed to continue the search in the apartment building where his relatives lived, while announcing that a man was pulled alive from the wreckage of their house yesterday.

“The first day the earthquake happened, their son-in-law took the Greek embassy and gave information that we have Greeks who are trapped under the ruins in Antioch. And then we waited to get some response, to get updates.

Since then some teams have come. Local teams were looking. They took out three or four neighbors alive on the first day. Yesterday they also took out another neighbor. He was alive too. And now we are waiting for help to see what will happen to my uncle,” Menounet emphasized.

For the last 10 years the couple lived in Antioch, while they were born and raised abroad. “I was in contact with them 20 days ago, while after the earthquake their daughter did not manage to contact them. I also tried to get them the same day, after the earthquake, but my uncle didn’t answer. In other words, he didn’t pick up the cell phone and nobody could talk to them since then.”

The representative of the Fire Department spoke about the same issue, John Bakermaking it known that in deviation from the protocols, yesterday, members of the Greek rescue crews carried out searches with a rescue dog in the apartment building where the two Greek expatriates lived and survivors were found.

Today, as an exception, EMAK will make a request to operate at this specific point.

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