CNN reported that a 10-year-old girl who was isolated after an earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria was rescued after 90 hours. Although 72 hours, which experts see as the golden time for saving lives, have passed, they have survived dramatically. The first food the girl found was milk.
According to CNN on the 9th (local time), a 10-year-old girl who was crushed under the rubble of a building in Hatay Province after the earthquake in Turkiye was rescued 90 hours after the quake struck. Rescuers heard a ringing sound near the wreckage and rescued the girl safely after a seven-hour rescue operation.
After the girl was rescued, the first thing she asked for was milk. The fire department said, “With great joy and applause, the girl was moved on a stretcher.”
At this time, 72 hours, which is considered the golden time for saving lives, have passed, but news of survivors’ survival continues. According to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency, a five-year-old girl and her parents, stranded in the rubble of a collapsed apartment in Kahramanmaras, southeastern Turkey, were safely rescued after 73 hours.
The Associated Press reported that “with many people still trapped in the wreckage, rescuers are speeding up to rescue more people in sub-zero weather.”
Rescue operations are underway in an earthquake-affected village in Antakya, Turkey, Hatay Province, on the night of the 9th (local time). 2023.2.10/News 1According to CNN, while the Syrian regime has virtually lost control of the situation, the rebels’ Civil Defense Forces’White Helmets’, who are leading the rescue operation, have been working nonstop for more than 90 hours to rescue people trapped in the rubble. However, he was concerned that hope of finding survivors was fading as time passed.
At least 21,051 people have died so far. This exceeds the number of victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, when 18,500 people died. As the golden time has passed, there is a prospect that the number of victims will continue to increase. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicted that the total death toll from the earthquake could exceed 20,000, and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that the possibility of more than 100,000 deaths reached 14%.
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