A woman and her young children were rescued nine days after getting buried in the rubble following a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
The story comes from the Turkish city of Hatay where rescuers are working against time to save as many people as possible after thousands were left buried underneath debris when the magnitude 7.8 quake started tearing buildings apart.
Among the rescued victims were a mother and her two young children who were trapped in their home for a grueling nine days before the search teams reached them.
According to the officials, the woman, named Ela, and her two children – one boy and one girl – were pulled out from the rubble after suffering in agony for 228 hours.
The mother and her children were also pictured wrapped in blankets on the stretchers before being rushed to the hospital for treatment.
Fortunately, the trio is expected to recover from their injuries.
As time is passing swiftly, officials have vowed to continue searches until every citizen is accounted for. Meanwhile, the death toll is dramatically rising and has already exceeded 41,000 people.
“We will continue our work until we remove the last citizen left under the collapsed buildings,” Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, said in a statement.
Elsewhere in Turkey, in the city of Adiyaman, search teams came across a 6-year-old girl named Miray who was left trapped in her collapsed building along with her sister after the ground began shaking.
The child had spent 178 hours buried underneath debris before rescuers reached her just in time to save her life.
Our thoughts remain with the victims of the Syria-Turkey earthquake during this challenging time.
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