Ten days crushed under the remains of a collapsed building, then the miracle. A mother and her two children were pulled alive today after being buried for 228 hours under the rubble of one of the buildings that collapsed in the Antioch earthquake. one of the most affected cities by the earthquake in south-eastern Turkey. The woman is carried on a stretcher by six people who tiptoe among the rubble of the burned-out buildings, then rescuers hug and continue the search. She was rescued almost simultaneously, after 227 hours under the rubblea 74-year-old woman, Cemile Kekec, in Kahramanmaras, another of the cities hardest hit by the earthquake, where a 45-year-old woman was also rescued in the morning. More than 8,000 people in Turkey were pulled alive from the remains of buildings that collapsed under the effects of the two earthquakes in the country’s southeast and various provinces in northern Syria, where trucks loaded with materials arrived today from doctors sent by the World Health Organization. “Much more support is needed to meet the basic health needs of all people,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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The death toll has so far exceeded 41,000 people but it is expected to increase if searches are halted while there are more than 105,000 wounded in Turkey. Rescuers continue to work after nightfall, but the area affected by the quake is constantly being hit by aftershocks. Since the day of the earthquake, February 6, 3,858 have been recorded, including almost 400 with a magnitude between 4 and 5, and the emergency in Turkey and the civil protection agency Afad called the situation “extraordinary”.
There are 50,576 buildings partially collapsed or badly damaged by the powerful earthquake and urgently need to be demolished, said Turkey’s Environment Minister Murat Kurum, announcing that authorities have so far inspected more than 387,000 buildings in the ten quake-hit provinces of Southeastern Anatolia. The city of Gaziantep has the most buildings in need of immediate demolition at nearly 12,000, followed by Hatay (10,991) and Kahramanmaras (10,777). As the search continues, Turkey continues to receive international solidarity after more than 100 countries have sent aid since day one. The UK has pledged a new £25m (€28m) aid package to earthquake-hit peoples in Turkey and Syria, bringing the total provided by London to £42.8m (€48m). euros) increased.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will travel to the Turkish capital on Thursday to express the solidarity of the Atlantic Alliance while Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan visited Ankara to show solidarity after the earthquake. Turkey thanked Armenia and called the visit “significant”. Yerevan has sent 100 tons of humanitarian aid to the quake-hit Turkish population, while a team of 28 Armenian rescuers are deployed in the quake-hit areas. Already last week, a border crossing was opened on the Turkish-Armenian border, which had been closed for 30 years due to troubled relations between Ankara and Yerevan over various issues, including rejection, to allow the arrival of relief supplies in the Turkish regions affected by the genocide to the Armenians through Turkey.
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