In the past 24 hours, 67 people have been pulled from the rubble, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Fuat Oktay said.
Rescuers in Turkey pulled two women alive from the rubble of damaged buildings where they had been trapped for 122 hours after Monday’s deadly earthquake, authorities said today.
More than 24,150 people have died in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, according to the latest count.
One of the survivors, 70-year-old Menekse Tabak, was found in a damaged building in Kahramanmaras province and was taken to a hospital, Anadolu Agency reported.
A 70-year-old woman, who was trapped under rubble in the earthquake in KahramanmaraÅŸ, was rescued after 122 hours because of intense efforts of rescue teams
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In Diyarbakir, 55-year-old Mashalah Cicek was pulled from the rubble of a building injured, the agency added.
Rescue crews pulled a father and his disabled son from the rubble in Gaziantep province after being trapped for 115 hours.
2 people, 1 disabled, pulled from rubble of building after 114 hours in Islahiye district of Gaziantep
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In the same province, 25-year-old Busra Almousa was rescued 119 hours after the earthquake.
In the Samandag district of Hatay province, rescuers crouched over chunks of cement and whispered “inshallah” (God willing) as they searched the rubble for a 10-day-old baby, who was pulled alive nearly 90 hours after the quake.
With his eyes wide open, Yagiz Ulas was wrapped in a blanket and taken to a field hospital. The rescuers also recovered his mother alive, according to the videos that were broadcast.
In the past 24 hours, 67 people have been pulled from the rubble, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Fuat Oktay said. About 80,000 people are hospitalized, while 1.05 million have been left homeless by the earthquake, he added.
“Our main goal is to ensure a return to normality by offering them permanent housing within a year and to make sure they heal their pain as soon as possible,” Oktai added.
According to today’s tally by the Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD), 20,655 people have been killed in Turkey. In Syria, the dead amount to more than 3,500, while many people remain in the rubble.
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