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Five people were rescued, this Wednesday, alive after nine days buried in the rubble, after the earthquakes in Turkey that caused at least 40,000 deaths in the country and Syria.
The last rescue was carried out around 1:00 p.m. (GMT) in Antioquia, one of the cities most destroyed by earthquakes and where rescue teams rescued people alive from the rubble. a woman and two childrenheld for 228 hours.
An hour before, teams rescued a 74-year-old womanCemile Kekeç, a resident of the town of Kahramanmaras, near the epicenter of the earthquake.
In the same city, a 42 year old womanMelike Imamoglu, was found alive in a collapsed building after search teams heard her cries for help.
According to a member of the rescue team, told the Hürriyet newspaper (based in Istanbul), the woman was in good health, despite the 222 hours she was trapped in the rubble, and “better than those who were outside”, something inexplicable. he said.
These five rescues, almost miraculous because they occurred after several days, join the rescue of another woman, Fatma Güngör, 77rescued in the city of Adiyaman.
The low temperatures, close to zero degrees, or even lower, in the region affected by the earthquakes, can in certain circumstances facilitate the survival of the trapped people, according to specialists from the Madrid Fire Department, in Spain, who participated in the rescues for several days, to the Efe agency.
The concrete rubble protects from extreme cold and, as it is not hot, the body does not sweat or dehydrate as in summerwhen the chances of survival were only two or three days, they had to.
The death toll from the two earthquakes, measuring 7.7 and 7.6, already exceeds 35,000 in Turkey and 5,000 in Syria, but it is feared that it could still rise when the rubble begins to be removed.
Source: Observadora
