Baby 10 days old lived 4 days under rubble in Turkey
2023.02.10 09:01
Baby 10 days old lived 4 days under rubble in Turkey
By Kristina Sobol
Budrigannews.com – Hunched under substantial pieces and murmuring “inshallah” (God willing), heros painstakingly ventured into the rubble, then passed down the line their award – a 10-day-old infant who endure four days with his mom in the fell structure.
Turkish baby Yagiz Ulas was carried on Friday to a field medical center in Samandag, Hatay province, wrapped in a shiny thermal blanket with his eyes wide open. Video footage from Turkey’s disaster agency showed that emergency workers also carried his mother on a stretcher, conscious but dazed and pale.
On the fifth day following a major earthquake that killed more than 21,000 people in Turkey and neighboring Syria, the rescue of several small children has uplifted the spirits of exhausted crews looking for survivors.
Videos released by disaster services showed that at least seven children were rescued on Friday. Their incredible survival inspired search crews, who also saved several adults who were trapped.
Throughout the night, the rescuers, including specialist teams from dozens of nations, labored in the rubble of thousands of destroyed buildings. As they searched the shattered concrete mounds for any sign of life, they frequently called for silence in the icy cold.
Video from the Turkish defense ministry showed that orange-clad workers squeezed into an air pocket beneath a fallen building in the Turkish town of Kahramanmaras, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Samandag, to find a toddler crying as dust fell into his eyes. After relief settled over him, rescuers gently brushed his face clean.
On Friday morning in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir, where the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and aftershocks turned apartment blocks into mounds of rubble and piles of shattered masonry, workers opened a wider hole, placed an oxygen mask on his face, and carried him to safety.
Further to the east of Turkey, another boy’s terrified face looked out from a pancaked building. His cries rose above the sound of the drills and grinders trying to free him 103 hours after the earthquake, he was taken by his mother on a stretcher, just like baby Yagiz.
And rescuers from the White Helmets group dug through cement and plaster with their bare hands across the border in Syria, the air thick with dust, until they reached the pink pajamas of a young girl who had been trapped for days but was finally free.
