After six days trapped among the rubble, the Turkey emergency services they have rescued during the last few hours seven people, among which is a seven month old baby after the earthquakes registered on Monday in the south of the country, near lto the border with Syria. A note of hope in a tragic environment: the UN believes that the earthquake could have caused double the 28,000 deaths recorded until now.
A seven-month-old baby has been found in the city of Antioquia, in Hatay province, 140 hours after the start of the earthquake, according to the official Turkish news agency Anadolu. Also, the rescue teams have been able to remove a woman, who is pregnant, her brother and one other person from among the rubble in the same province. In addition, a 13-year-old girl was rescued in the city of Gaziantep after 133 hours.
In Onikisubat district, Kahramanmarash province, emergency teams have found a 26 year old male that rescued from the rubble of an eleven-story building, as the aforementioned agency has collected. For its part, the Turkish newspaper ‘Daily Sabah’ has reported the rescue of a sixth person, a four year old girl in Sengul, southeast of Turkey.
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Just arrived on Saturday in Kahramanmaras, near the epicenter of the earthquake in Turkey, the UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, assured Sky News that the death toll still could increase considerably.
“It’s really hard to estimate very accurately, because you have to get under the rubble, but I’m sure it’s going to double or more,” Griffiths said. “It’s terrifying,” she added. The latest balances place the number of deaths from the earthquake at 28,191 people (24,617 in Turkey and 3,574 in Syria), the deadliest in the region since 1939.