More than 8,000 people were rescued alive from the remains of thousands of buildings that collapsed yesterday Monday due to two strong earthquakes in southeast Turkey, killing 3,419 people and injuring more than 20,500 in that country. This was announced today by the government.
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Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said that in addition to the devastating earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6, there were 312 other aftershocks, some of which exceeded magnitude 6.
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In Khatai, about 170 kilometers south of where the first quake hit, rescuers were able to contact a family of four trapped under rubble: “We’ll get you out alive. says a member of the rescue team during a transmission at the CNNTürk station.
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In Diyarbakır, about 350 kilometers east of the province where the first quake hit, a woman was rescued after being trapped under the rubble of her home for 31 hours and taken to the hospital to the applause of ambulance crews.
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A 30-year-old man was rescued on Tuesday morning from a ten-story building that collapsed in Osmaniye province, about 135 kilometers from where it was recorded, at 4:17 am (01:17 GMT) on Monday, the epicenter of the first magnitude 7 earthquake ,6.
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A 14-year-old boy was found alive in the province of Kahramanmaras, where the first earthquake hit, according to local media reports. “I’m hungry” was the first thing he said to rescuers.
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There were scenes of emotion this Tuesday morning as rescuers managed to find someone alive after being trapped for more than a day, especially since the low temperatures make the tasks very difficult.
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Many citizens are waiting for news from relatives and friends in the vicinity of the collapsed houses in which they lived.
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Some 24,000 people are involved in the rescue effort, joined by teams from dozens of countries.
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In Turkey, the earthquakes that devastated the southeast of the country on Monday and killed about 1,500 people in Syria killed at least 3,381 people and injured 20,400 more, according to the latest figures provided by Turkish authorities.
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About 5,700 buildings collapsed as a result of two strong aftershocks of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6, Turkish emergency agency Afad said this morning.
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The population of the affected areas, where 15 million people live, has been ordered not to enter the houses.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has declared seven days of national mourning, warned yesterday that with ongoing efforts to clear many buildings in the quake zone, it is difficult to predict how much the death toll and injury will increase.
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A total of 19 European countries have already mobilized more than a thousand rescuers to work to find survivors of the earthquakes that rocked southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday and killed more than 5,000 people in both countries.
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Just a day after the massive earthquake in Turkey, the EU sent 27 rescue and medical teams through the Civil Protection Mechanism.
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Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu has been found alive after being trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building caused by Monday’s earthquakes in southern Turkey near the Syrian border, the club’s vice president confirmed. whose squad is now.
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Turkish ambulance crews managed to rescue a mother and her six-month-old baby on Tuesday after they were trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building in Hatay around 29:00 after the earthquakes registered on Monday in the south of the country, near the border with Syria.
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