The operation began at 16:30 after voices of survivors, of the deadly earthquake that flattened Turkey and Syria, were heard calling for help.
A major operation of the 1st and 2nd EMAK in Antioch has been underway again for a while now after voices were heard calling for help under the debris.
The operation started at 16:30 with EMAK operating together with 4 foreign missions after voices of survivors of the deadly earthquake that flattened Turkey and Syria were heard calling for help.
In any case, the perception of the existence of survivors 136 hours after the murderous Richter events that have so far resulted in the death of at least 25,000 people is a crevice of optimism.
Moreover, earlier, a boy of only 2 years was saved 122 hours after the two strong earthquakes that hit Hatay, as reported by the Turkish news agency Anadolu, releasing videos from the rescue operation.
In the video, the rescuer carries the little boy wrapped in a blanket in his arms, calling an ambulance to pick him up.
2-year-old baby has been rescued miraculously 122 hours after two powerful earthquakes hit southern Turkey’s Hatay
🔴LIVE updates here: https://t.co/rjJzOvo2mE pic.twitter.com/hk5rtOW19k
— ANADOLU AGENCY (@anadoluagency) February 11, 2023
At the same time, the rescuers in the province of Hatay, after 128 hours, rescued a two-month-old baby and a 13-year-old boy alive.
According to Anadolu, the infant has already been taken to the hospital to undergo tests and receive the care of doctors.
👶2-month-old baby rescued from earthquake rubble after 128 hours in debris
🚑The baby survived the deadly disaster and was immediately taken to the hospital for medical checks
🔴LIVE updates here: https://t.co/rjJzOvo2mE https://t.co/t7yLEhhhwL pic.twitter.com/65ZpKXbkhx
— ANADOLU AGENCY (@anadoluagency) February 11, 2023
Speaking during a visit to the quake-hit zone, the Turkish president said hundreds of thousands of buildings were uninhabitable across southern Turkey and that authorities would take steps to rebuild damaged cities within weeks.
“We have declared a state of emergency. This means that from now on those involved in looting or kidnapping should know that the heavy hand of the state is on their backs,” he said.
Erdogan said yesterday that looting had been observed in some areas. However, it is not clear which kidnapping incidents he was referring to.
Security in the quake-hit zone came under the spotlight after the Austrian military suspended rescue operations there due to what its spokesman described as “increasing difficulty in the security sector”.
The worst disaster in the last 100 years in Turkey
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths today appealed to the global community not to forget the thousands of people who need shelter and food as rescuers search for survivors of Monday’s earthquake that struck southern Turkey and the northwest Syria.
Speaking at a press briefing in Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province as rescue workers worked, Griffiths said he had spoken to families who have been displaced and left in the cold without food after the quake.
“I am here to make sure these people are not forgotten,” he told reporters.
Griffiths praised Turkey’s response to the disaster as “extraordinary” and hailed the “courage of the rescuers who are working around the clock hoping for one more sound, one more survivor”.
“It’s the beginning and my experience is that people are always disappointed at the beginning,” he said in an apparent reference to criticism of the authorities’ response after the earthquake.
As he said, what happened in the area around the epicenter of the earthquake is “the worst event of the last 100 years in the region”.
He apparently meant the region’s worst natural disaster: Monday’s earthquake was the worst to hit Turkey since 1939.
Syria’s 11-year civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and left millions homeless, remains the region’s deadliest in recent history.
As Griffiths said, a three-month operation is being launched for both Turkey and Syria with the aim of helping cover the costs of operations there.
He told Reuters he hoped aid in Syria would be distributed to both government-held and opposition-held areas, but noted that at that level things were “not clear yet.”
Rescuers in opposition-held areas have criticized the United Nations and the international community for their slow response after the earthquake.
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