Showing remarkable resilience and bravery for a teenager believing he was speaking his last words, Taha Erdem speaks of his regrets and the things he hopes to do if he emerges alive. Erdem and his family all survived. See the video in the link.
The teen goes on to recount that he believes his family are dead, along with many others in the city, and that he will soon join them.
When The Associated Press spoke to the family on Thursday they were living in a government-provided tent, along with hundreds of thousands of others who survived the disaster that hit southern Turkey and north Syria, killing more than 43,000.Article content The Erdems’ younger children — daughter Semanur, 13, and 9-year-old son Yigit Cinar — were sleeping in their parents’ room when the quake hit.
Ibrahim Zakaria, a 23-year-old Syrian who was rescued in the coastal Syrian town of Jableh on Feb. 10, told the AP that he survived by licking water dripping down the wall next to him, slipping in and out of consciousness and losing hope of survival in his waking moments.“I almost surrendered because I thought I will die,” he said from his hospital bed. “I thought: ‘There is no escape.”‘
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