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Izmir earthquake damage
Rescue teams pulled two children alive today from the rubble of a collapsed building in Izmir province, nearly three days after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed 83 people in Turkey and two more on a Greek island. .
And the Turkish government’s disaster management authority announced that a 3-year-old girl named Elif Prinsik was under the rubble and was rescued 65 hours after the earthquake and taken to hospital.
Turkish media broadcast scenes of the girl, wrapped in a blanket, while being evacuated, to the applause of a group of paramedics.
The official Turkish TRT station quoted the girl’s grandmother as saying: “I am very happy. May God bless you, answer my prayers and meet Elif. “
The girl is among 106 people who came out alive from under the rubble of buildings destroyed or damaged by an earthquake that struck the Izmir province in western Turkey, as well as the Greek island of Samos.
Among the people who rescued Elif’s mother, two sisters and a brother made it out alive Saturday night. However, his brother died shortly after, according to TRT.
A few hours ago, rescuers pulled another girl alive, 14-year-old Edel Serene, from under the rubble of another building, according to the Disaster Management Authority.
However, the family’s joy was not complete, as the body of Edel’s sister, Ipek, was found under the rubble, according to the Hurriyet newspaper.
The earthquake killed at least 83 people in Turkey, according to the latest balance published this morning. Two people died on the Greek island of Samos.
Around a thousand people have been injured in Turkey, of which more than two hundred are still in hospital. According to the Turkish authorities, 1,864 tents have been set up in the Izmir region and, to date, some 5,000 people have their homes destroyed or damaged.
And “the French Press Agency” at the scene reported that rescue teams are continuing their searches through the rubble, hoping to find other survivors.
From time to time, officers are asked to remain silent so that they can hear the slightest call for help from under the rubble. Some of them asked, over loudspeaker, that the survivors, who may have been trapped under the rubble, try to shout to be able to locate them.
