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Helpers tirelessly search for survivors after the severe earthquake in Izmir, Turkey. The earthquake killed 79 people on Friday afternoon. But now the unimaginable succeeded: rescuers found a three-year-old little Elif. He was under the rubble for 65 hours and the girl survived.
“We rescued our three-year-old Elif in Izmir after 65 hours alive from the rubble. We are here until we get to the last, ”wrote the civil protection agency Afad on Twitter. Numerous assistants took the boy, who was awake, to a hospital tent.
Elif’s mother and siblings also saved
The three-year-old’s grandmother told reporters: “I am very happy. May God reward the saviors. I was reunited with Elif and soon she will also be reunited with her mother and siblings. My prayers were heard. “The girl’s mother and her three brothers were rescued from the rubble of an eight-story building after 11pm on Saturday. According to Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, a boy and a seven-year-old boy they died and other residents were being treated.
Also early Monday, a 14-year-old boy was rescued from the rubble and taken to a hospital after first aid, as Anadolu reported. The young man had been lying under the rubble for 58 hours. According to Anadolu, the Turkish civil protection agency Afad has so far saved 105 people after Friday’s earthquake. Salvage work continued in the coastal city of Izmir.
79 dead in Turkey, two in Greece
During the severe earthquake on Friday afternoon in the Aegean Sea, parts of western Turkey and Greece were shaken. Dozens of people were killed in Turkey, two young men on the Greek island of Samos were killed by the rubble of a collapsing wall. According to the authorities, the center of the earthquake was in the sea off the Turkish province of Izmir. Turkey’s Disaster Agency gave the force with 6.6, the US earthquake agency even with 7.
The death toll rose to 79 in Turkey, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Monday. Hundreds of people were injured, according to official information. Turkey is repeatedly shaken by severe earthquakes. As recently as January, more than 40 people were killed in two earthquakes in the eastern Turkish cities of Elazig and Malatya. (euc / SDA)
