Woman survived 177 hours in rubble and was rescued a week after Turkey quake

Rescuers have managed to pull more survivors from the rubble a week after the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria and left more than 33,000 deadwhile The UN has warned there will be more deaths.

Saadet Sendagan elderly Turkish woman was miraculously rescued on Monday at 177 hours from the seismic movement, being rescued from the rubble in Hatay after just over a week of work.

Her son reacted with squeals of joy as rescuers moved her to provide aid and medical assistance.

In total, more than 35,000 people have died from the quake, according to figures updated on Monday.

Hours earlier, a miner and a 62-year-old woman staged other miraculous rescues. after nearly seven days trapped among the destruction of collapsed buildings in the devastating February 6 earthquake.

mustafaaged seven, was rescued in the Turkish province of Hataywhile Nafize Yilmaz was found alive in Nurdagi, also in Hatay, the state news agency reported on Monday. Anadolu. the two were trapped 163 hours before his rescue on Sunday evening.

More than 32,000 people from local organizations are working in search and rescue efforts alongside 8,294 overseas rescuers, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said.

A member of a British rescue team posted a video on Twitter on Sunday in which a rescuer descends a tunnel in the rubble where he finds a Turk who had been trapped in Hatay for five days.

Rescue teams are working against the clock as experts warn that the chance of finding people alive amid the devastation is diminishing day by day.

In the destroyed Turkish town of Kahramanmarasnear the quake’s epicenter, crews dug up mountains of rubble where they recovered a body.

But rescuers have complained of a lack of advanced search sensors and equipment, so they have to carefully dig up the rubble with shovels or their hands.

“If we had this kind of equipment, we would have saved hundreds of lives, if not more,” said Alaa Mubarak, head of civil defense in Jableh, in northwestern Syria.

The UN has denounced that all the aid that Syria desperately needs has not been sent.

A convoy of supplies for northwest Syria arrived via Turkey, but UN emergencies chief Martin Griffiths said much more is needed for the millions of people whose homes have been destroyed.

“So far, we have failed the people of northwestern Syria. They feel abandoned. They’re looking for international help that hasn’t arrived,” Griffiths tweeted.

Assessing the damage in southern Turkey on Saturday, when the death toll stood at 28,000, Griffiths said the number could “double or more” as the chance of finding survivors dwindles every day.

Supplies were slow to reach Syria, a country with years of war that destroyed its health system and parts of the country remain under the control of rebels fighting the regime of Bashar al-Asad.

A convoy of 10 UN trucks entered northwestern Syria through the border post of Bab al Hawaaccording to a journalist from AFP.

Bab al Hawa es the only point through which international aid can enter areas of Syria under rebel control after almost 12 years of civil war. Other crossings have been closed under pressure from China and Russia.

World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met with Assad in Damascus on Sunday and said the Syrian leader had said he was open to opening more border crossings to help bring relief. aid in rebel-held areas.

(With information from AFP)

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