Turkish rescuers pulled a 14-year-old boy and two males practically 11 days after the large earthquake, a minister stated Friday, as rescue efforts wind down.
Osman, 14, was rescued 260 hours after the 7.8-magnitude tremor struck Turkey’s southeast and Syria, Well being Minister Fahrettin Koca stated on Twitter.
He shared a picture of the adolescent along with his eyes open on a stretcher and stated Osman had been taken to hospital in Antakya within the quake-devastated Hatay province.
Rescuers discovered Osman after listening to sounds within the rubble, Anadolu state information company reported.
One hour later, rescuers elsewhere saved two males aged 26 and 33 in Antakya, Koca stated, additionally sharing pictures of the boys receiving remedy from well being employees.
The DHA information company named the boys as Mehmet Ali Sakiroglu, 26, and Mustafa Avci, 33, and stated they’d been rescued from the identical constructing’s rubble.
“I am nicely, there are not any points,” Avci says throughout a name to a cherished one in a video shared by Koca.
The unseen man on the opposite finish of the road breaks down earlier than Avci asks, “How are my mom and others?”.
“They’re all nicely, they’re ready for you,” the person on the opposite finish of the road shouts, as a small smile of reduction seems on Avci’s face.
The quake has killed greater than 41,000 folks in Turkey and Syria, injured tens of 1000’s of others and left hundreds of thousands with out shelter in freezing temperatures.
The tremor struck 11 provinces in Turkey. Turkish officers have stated rescue efforts in three provinces, Adana, Kilis and Sanliurfa, have been accomplished.
