Even ten days after the terrible earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border area, isolated people are still being pulled alive from the rubble. After 228 hours under the rubble of a collapsed house, 13-year-old Mustafa was rescued. In a video published by the mayor of Istanbul, helpers can be seen addressing the boy and eventually carrying him away from the scene of the accident on a stretcher.
So far, 36,187 people have died after the earthquake in Turkey and more than 100,000 people were injured. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised that the rescue work will not stop until all people buried alive have been removed from the rubble. The government corrected the number of affected provinces from ten to eleven.
13,200 injured are being treated in hospitals in Turkey, but some victims cannot be identified. Many bereaved people try to find their loved ones with search ads on social media. Numerous hospitals were also severely damaged by the earthquake and patient care infrastructure was affected.
The earthquake also has serious economic consequences: the catastrophe will cost Turkey up to one percent of annual economic output. “The earthquake hit agricultural areas and light manufacturing regions hard, so the impact on other sectors is limited,” said Beata Javorcik, chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Source: Krone
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