Ankara, The Indonesia Post – Here is the latest news regarding the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria on February 6:
Three people, including a child, were rescued alive from under the rubble of a building in the city of Antakya in southern Turkey on Saturday. The rescue of the three people came 296 hours after an earthquake devastated southern Turkey, reports the Anadolu news agency.
The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey has reached 39,672 people, according to Turkey’s disaster management agency. But this number is expected to continue to increase considering that around 264,000 apartments were destroyed by the earthquake and many victims have yet to be found. In Syria, authorities say 5,800 people have died, although this number has not changed in recent days.
Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu was found dead under a building he had lived in in southern Turkey after a devastating earthquake rocked Turkey last week, the player’s agent said on Saturday.
A man was rescued from the bottom of a collapsed building in Hatay province in southern Turkey, 278 hours after the devastating earthquake on February 6, the Anadolu news agency said. Hours earlier, two other people had been pulled alive from the wreckage. Osman Halebiye (14) and Mustafa Avci (34) were rescued overnight in the city of Antakya in southeastern Turkey.
“I have lost hope. It is truly a miracle. They have returned my son. When I saw the ruins I thought that no one could be saved from there,” said Avci’s father.
Mosques around the world held funeral prayers for victims who died in the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, many of whom did not have time to pray before being buried, due to the enormity of this disaster.
FIFA allocated 1 million US dollars as humanitarian aid for people affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
As of Friday, 143 trucks of aid from the United Nations had crossed into rebel-held areas of northwestern Syria since aid operations resumed on February 9, a spokesman for the United Nations Coordinating Agency for Human Relations (OCHA) told Reuters. (mhn/bbs)
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