Istanbul, February 17 Three survivors of the February 6 earthquakes in Turkey were rescued on Friday after spending more than 260 hours under the rubble, while the official death toll in the country is already at least 38,000 .
The three rescues took place in the city of Antioquia, one of the most devastated by the tremors of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6, which affected an area of about 100,000 square kilometers in the southeast of the country, and also caused around 4,000 deaths in Syria. .
Mehmet Ali Sakiroglu, 26, and Mustafa Avci, 34, were pulled alive from a collapsed building in a neighborhood in northwest Antioch, while around the same time, in a nearby neighborhood, Rescue teams freed 12-year-old Osman Halebíye. boy from a Syrian family.
The three men had spent 261 hours in the rubble, or nearly 11 full days.
The Turkish emergency service Afad has updated the death toll recorded until last midnight, already confirming 38,044 victims, but this is a provisional toll, since various estimates predict that the final toll is close or greater than 100,000.
The earthquake also injured more than 108,000 people, a figure that includes all those who were hospitalized in connection with the disaster, and more than 216,000 people left the affected provinces.
Among these displaced persons, a new tragedy occurred this morning, when a building caught fire in the province of Konya in central Anatolia, causing the death of 7 people who had been saved from the earthquake. EFE
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