Ankara, Jan 18. – Three people, including a child, were rescued alive this Saturday after 296 hours trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Antioquia due to severe earthquakes that devastated the area there thirteen days ago.
This was reported by the official Anadolu Agency, stating that the rescue teams managed to save a man, a woman and a child who had been abandoned under the rubble of the building where they lived.
The 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes that shook eleven provinces of Turkey in the past 6 days have killed at least 39,772 people in the Eurasian country, according to what the Turkish minister reported last night of the Interior, Suleyman Soylu.
With the nearly 5,000 deaths recorded so far in Syria, the total number now exceeds 45,000 and, according to experts, it will increase significantly as tens of thousands of bodies remain under the rubble of collapsed buildings, making of these earthquakes the worst catastrophe that the region has known for more than a century.