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This, according to data offered on Sunday by the Vice President of the Turkish Government, Fuat Oktay, who before the press in Smyrna (Smyrna), city most affected by the earthquake, specified that a total of 104 people have already been freed alive from the rubble of 17 buildings demolished in that city.
The teams of the Turkish emergency service AFAD continue their work in 9 buildings in Izmir, a city that, with 4 million inhabitants, is the third largest in Turkey.
The last person saved was a 70-year-old man, Ahmet Çitim, who was rescued shortly after local midnight on Saturday and taken to a hospital after being trapped for 33 hours, a success celebrated as a “miracle” by the Turkish press.
Since then, Several bodies have been recovered, but apparently none alive.
Regarding the rescue efforts, images circulate on social networks that show the intense work that is being carried out, especially in Izmir, to try to find survivors.
Drone footage shows rescuers intensifying search for survivors through the #earthquake that hit the port city of #Izmir in #Turkey. pic.twitter.com/FcdFb67uUJ
– (@mario_moray) November 1, 2020
All night, and early morning # 01nov search efforts continued by rescuers in #Izmir (Smyrna) Moment when they manage to rescue under the surviving rubble. I pray for the children. #Turkey pic.twitter.com/usYwbTwCcl
– Leiris (@leirisgsm) November 1, 2020
A total of 896 people were treated by the health services after the earthquake, 682 of them have already been discharged, 214 are still under treatment, and among the latter there are about a dozen in intensive care, according to AFAD figures offered on Sunday morning (local time).
Although so far there are no official estimates of the number of missing that are still under the rubble, rescue teams estimate that approximately 30 one of them, rescue specialist Muhammed Zahiroglu told the local press.
In the morning of this Sunday tremors were still felt from the ground in Smyrna, though increasingly weaker.
According to AFAD, since noon on Friday, when the strong earthquake surprised citizens, they have registered 812 aftershocks of the earthquake, 40 of them with a magnitude greater than 4 degrees.
Quake, whose epicenter was located in the Aegean Sea, 60 kilometers from Izmir, it was felt in a wide area, even being perceived in several cities of Bulgaria, while on the nearby Greek island of Samos it caused the death of 2 young men, which brings to 53 the total and provisional number of fatalities of the catastrophe.
Here are some of the images of the earthquake collected by The Sun newspaper.
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