A young girl, trapped under rubble for over 40 hours, rescued in Syria
Breathtaking footage of rescue missions after Monday's devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria followed by hundreds of powerful aftershocks keeps emerging. In Syria, rescuers were able to pull out a little girl who had been trapped under rubble for more than 40 hours.
"Once again, a miracle..... a little girl has been rescued after more than 40 hours trapped under the rubble of her house in the town of Salqin in Idlib," reads the message posted on Twitter by the White Helmets organisation.
A 10-year-old Syrian girl was also rescued from the rubble of a five-storey building that was knocked down in Hatay province, according to Turkish media. She was trapped among the rubble for 39 hours. Another four-year-old girl was rescued in Hatay 33 hours after the earthquakes struck, while a six-year-old boy was also pulled alive from the rubble in the same province.
Turkey's Anadolu Agency reports that emergency teams are still working to rescue the boy's mother. Also in Kahramanmaraș, a 58-year-old woman was rescued from the ruins of a hotel after 52 hours, CNN Turk reports. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters Tuesday afternoon that about 8,000 people had been rescued from the ruins of earthquake-damaged buildings by then. Rescue efforts are continuing but are hampered by cold temperatures, damaged roads and poor internet connections. According to experts quoted by the New York Times, the "golden period" for rescuing people from the rubble is up to three days after an earthquake.
