Ashish Ranjan
Turkey earthquake: A 10-day-old infant and his mother were rescued from the wreckage in Turkey 90 hours after the first of the catastrophic earthquakes struck Syria and Turkey.Yagiz Ulas, a 10-day-old infant, was saved from a destroyed building in the southern province of Hatay, which was severely damaged by the disaster.
A rescuer crouched behind debris and whispered “inshallah” (God willing) as he reached into the wreckage and handed the infant to his team members. The child was wrapped in a gleaming thermal blanket and rushed to a medical field centre in Samandag with his eyes wide open. Emergency personnel transported his mother, who was bewildered and pale but conscious, on a stretcher, according to a video from Turkey’s disaster service.
Yağız Ulaş bebek sadece 10 günlük. Depremden 90 saat sonra Hatay Samandağ’da annesi ile birlikte enkazdan çıkarıldı. pic.twitter.com/7jjjEXQfiV
— Ekrem İmamoğlu (@ekrem_imamoglu) February 9, 2023
As the day progressed, further people were rescued in the country. Six individuals were rescued from a collapsed building in Iskenderun, Hatay, after spending 101 hours buried under the rubble, according to rescue workers.
Murat Baygul, a search-and-rescue worker, was quoted by the news agency Associated Press as claiming that the six individuals, all members of the same family, were able to survive by seeking safety together in a small pocket of the collapsed structure.
In Nurdagi, close to Iskenderun, a Spanish rescuer exclaimed, “I’ve got him! I’ve got him! Let’s go!” as he retrieved a two-year-old boy from a fallen structure. A group of troops from the Spanish Military Emergencies Unit (UME) formed a human chain to transfer Muslim Saleh to a warm tent. Shortly thereafter, they rescued his six-year-old sister, Elif, and then their mother, both of whom were discovered to be alive.
In the village of Kahramanmaras, around 170 kilometres north of Iskenderun, orange-clad workmen discovered a child in a fallen structure who was crying as dust entered his eyes.In the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir on Friday morning, the terrified face of a small child peered out from a collapsed structure, his cries rising above the sounds of drills and grinders used to rescue him. As with infant Yagiz, his mother followed him on a stretcher 103 hours after the earthquake.
Aurelio Soto, a spokesman for UME, told Reuters, “They did not require a great deal of medical care; just a little bit of love, warmth, drink, and fruit.”
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The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the border region between Turkey and Syria, killing over 24,000 people and injuring a great number more. Friday, over 100 hours after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, rescuers raced against the clock to scour the rubble. The death toll continues to grow amid enormous damage, and hundreds of thousands of people rendered homeless by the earthquakes are gripped by cold, hunger, and despair.
