Against the background of the black statistics, the news of being rescued 5 days after the devastating earthquakes brings hope for more survivors. Footage provided to bTV by the Bulgarian rescuers shows how, after a 22-hour action, together with the Polish team, managed to pull a woman alive from the wreckagea.
The bTV teams are still at the epicenter of the disaster today. Our special messengers Beste Sabri and operator Ognyan Krastev are in Adana.
Happy news marked the efforts of the Bulgarian rescuers in Antakya. A mountain rescue dog found a survivor under tons of concrete. After 84 hours under the ruins, the woman was rescued.
“In a building, it was detected with a thermal camera that there may be living people. The dogs were able to mark the exact spot. The woman was in a relatively accessible place, the local teams were able to break through to her and she was saved,” said Atanas Ukov, who is the handler of a rescue dog for the BRC.
In Antakya, shops are closed, there is no water and electricity, and some gas stations have been turned into humanitarian aid stations. Food and medicine are distributed on the street.
The tension is rising. Relatives of the people under the runes say that help from Turkey’s civil defense is not reaching them and the state is not doing enough to search for survivors.
In small towns in Hatay, they are still looking for survivors. Three people are missing in Bektashli.
The affected villages are deserted, and kilometer-long queues form at their entrances and exits.
