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By Saturday morning, about half of the 20 houses that collapsed in the Turkish city of 3.5 million Izmir had been through the extensive search and rescue effort after Friday’s powerful earthquake.
The rescue services had worked overnight to find survivors in the destroyed houses.
Television images show how Rescue teams worked hard to rescue a mother of four from the remains of a house. By lunchtime Swedish time, the mother and three of the children had been rescued and were still fighting to free the fourth child.
According to the mayor of Izmir, there were still 180 people trapped in the destroyed houses.
“We are glad that miracles are happening as a result of the hard work of the rescue teams,” Mayor Tunc Soyer said, according to Reuters.
More than 800 people have been reported injured according to CNN Türk, especially in Izmir, where many people were excavated by the landslides.
The 6.6 and 7 magnitude earthquake, which occurred at 12.51 on Friday, was shallow and occurred at sea, triggering a high-wave mini-tsunami in Izmir, Turkey and the island of Samos. At least one person is said to have drowned in the floods.
A great effort was made with several thousand people to provide the victims with tents and supplies.
In an area outside Izmir you have they pitched tents for 2,000 people, partly out of fear of more landslides, and authorities are warning residents to enter damaged buildings.
On the Greek island of Samos, two teenagers were killed when a wall collapsed on them, but the vast majority of deaths occurred in Izmir.
Read more: Swedish Ruken Cetiner in Izmir: “Now it’s chaos here”
Subsequently, there have been several hundred aftershocks, the strongest of which is around 4 in magnitude.
The earthquake was so strong that it was felt in Athens, Istanbul and Crete.
Photo: Yasin Akgul / AFP
Photo: Ozan Kose / AFP
