As hopes of finding more survivors begin to fade amid freezing weather and much of it left in ruins, another scene has sparked excitement in Turkey’s southeastern Adiyaman province.

A father and son were rescued by firefighters after being transported 54 hours trapped in the rubble of a building destroyed by the earthquakes that shook the country last Monday. And they weren’t the only ones. Others have managed to climb out of the remains of collapsed buildings in Turkey and neighboring Syria.

It has been reported in the last few hours several rescues of people buried for more than 50 hours among the rubble as specialized crews dig in an increasingly desperate search.

In Besni district, firefighters doubled their work when they heard about it voices from some ruins and after hours of effort they managed to free Ahmet Aydin and his son Yusuf. No details on his health have been provided at this time.

In the center of the hardest-hit town of Karamanmaras, a woman named Hilal Kocaoglu was also pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed hotel on Wednesday morning.

Search and rescue teams working in the rubble of the hotel have stepped up their work due to the Demirören New news agency. sound coming from the ruins early in the morning and finally reached Kocaoglu.

The woman was freed from the rubble with injuries and hospitalized after receiving first aid from the medical teams at the rescue site.

In Hatay, another woman named Semra Et also managed to get out, with the help of special teams, after spending 53 hours under the rubble.

“Thank you so much. I love you all,” were the first words she said to the firefighters who rescued her.

Deaths from Monday’s devastating earthquakes pass 11,200 in Turkey and there are more than 40,000 injured, adding to the disaster that many of the basic services in the affected areas have stopped working in sub-zero temperatures.

The freezing climate, with up to 6 degrees below zero in the region, limits survival as the hours passed since the first quake early Monday morning.

Rescues in Syria

In Syria, also partially devastated by Monday’s violent earthquake, in an area already devastated by a civil war that has lasted for more than a decade, this Wednesday there was reason to celebrate: the rescue group of the White Helmets is managed to save an entire family from under the rubble in northwestern Syria, the hardest-hit area of ​​the country as it is close to the epicenter of the main earthquake in southern Turkey.

“A true miracle, voices of joy reach heaven, an entire family is rescued from under the rubble of their home in Besanya town, west of Idlib,” the White Helmets said in a video released last night. his official Twitter account.

In the clip of more than 2 minutes we see how two rescuers bring the father out first, while the other two children are later rescued from under the rubble in a crowd of people who flocked to the scene to witness the “miracle”. and cried “God is great.”

The relief efforts were carried out more than a day and a half after the first earthquake of magnitude 7.7, with its epicenter in southern Turkey and which has so far left a total death toll of over 8,300 dead on Turkish territory and on Sirius.

Rescuers work tirelessly to save the “hundreds of families” still trapped.

Adding to the suffering of the earthquake is the fact that the only direct route of entry for supplies into the north-western areas of Syria, the Bab al Hawa border crossing, was damaged.

Bab al Hawa is the only point through which supplies enter the rebel-held areas of Idlib and the neighboring Aleppo region, except for some occasional shipments of humanitarian aid carried out by the United Nations from areas controlled by the government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

Humanitarian sources have assured EFE that, moreover, the roads leading to the border crossing are in very bad condition, both on the Turkish and Syrian sides.

In addition to Bab al Hawa, other public infrastructures suffered damage in the area, hindering the development of humanitarian works, also burdened by the Widespread fuel shortage in Syria and the lack of specialized machinery for rescue operations.

Source: EFE