Last Update: February 10, 2023, 18:28 IST
A rescue worker digs to reach children under the rubble of a collapsed building in the rebel-held town of Jindayaris, two days after a deadly earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, February 8, 2023. (AFP)
German emergency workers carefully carried 40-year-old Zeynep Kahraman on a stretcher across broken blocks of concrete and bent metal
Rescue workers pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey on Friday, prompting an outpouring of joy from onlookers nearly 104 hours after she was struck by a massive earthquake that has caused deaths and injuries across the region. There was havoc.
German emergency workers carefully lift 40-year-old Zeynep Kahraman into an ambulance after crumbling blocks of concrete and bent metal in the town of Kirikhan.
“Now I believe in miracles,” Steven Bayer, leader of the International Search and Rescue Team, said at the site.
You can see people crying and hugging each other. It is such a great relief that this lady turned out to be so fit under such circumstances. It’s an absolute miracle,” he said.
The death toll in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria rose to 21,000 on Friday morning from the deadliest earthquake to hit the region in decades.
With millions more left homeless and short of food in the face of a severe winter, they are desperate for a multi-national relief effort to ease their suffering.
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