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Wonderful! 3 People Found Alive After 13 Days Buried in Turkey Earthquake Debris

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Rescuers Turki on Saturday (18/2) succeeded in removing three people, including a child, alive from the rubble of the building, 13 days after earthquake devastating killing tens of thousands of people. However, one of the three people later died.

Reported by the news agency AFP, Saturday (18/2/2023), a journalist for the Turkish television channel NTV later reported that one of those found had died after being taken to hospital. There is no more detailed information about it.

NTV broadcast images of rescue teams placing the rescued on stretchers after they spent 296 hours trapped in the rubble.

The earthquake has a magnitude of 7.8 on February 6 rocked southeastern Turkey and Syria, killing more than 43,000 people. This devastating earthquake has caused millions of people to be deprived of proper shelter.

Earlier this week, rescuers had found people who had managed to survive even though they had been trapped for so long under the rubble, in the freezing cold. However, their numbers had decreased to only a handful in the past few days.

Earlier, Turkish rescue teams on Friday (17/2) managed to pull a 45-year-old man out of the rubble. This came just hours after other rescue workers managed to pull three people out of the rubble alive, including a 14-year-old boy.

(it/it)

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