However, hopes dwindle as the hours go by. According to the latest official balance, there are more than 24,000 dead and 80,000 injured. It is feared that in a region the size of a country like Hungary, tens of thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
Euskaraz irakurri: Bizirik dauden pertsonak erreskatatzen jarraitzen dute Turkian et Sirian, lurrikaratik sei egunera
While the number dead in Turkey and Syria There are already more than 24,000, the rescue teams continue to find survivors who have been under the rubble for more than 120 hours.
Masallah Çiçek, a 55-year-old woman, was rescued alive early Saturday morning from the ruins of her apartment in Diyarbakir, 122 hours after the earthquake that shook ten provinces in the country’s southeast on Monday.
According to the latest official balance sheet this Saturday, At least 20,665 people have been killed in Turkey alone, where the number of injured is 80,088 people. at the neighbour Syria there is a record of 3553 deaths and 5,276 wounded.
This has been confirmed by the Turkish disaster management agency, AFAD more than 90,000 people have been evacuated of the 10 Turkish provinces affected by the earthquake and currently more than 166,000 rescue teams and volunteers are on the scene, including some 8,000 foreign rescue specialists.
On the sixth day since the earthquakes, emergency services continue to search for those who are still alive to rescue, a task that grows more difficult by the hour as the standard time a human can remain without the intake of water or food in disasters like this it is 72 hours.
Monday’s 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes were centered in Kahramanmaras province and affected more than 13 million people in 10 provinces. It is feared that in a region the size of a European country like Hungary, tens of thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
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Source: EITB
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