Turkish rescuers on Saturday pulled three people alive from the rubble 13 days after a massive quake killed tens of thousands, but one, a 12-year-old, later died.
A rescuer stands in front of rubble near the site where Aleyna Olmez, 17, was rescued from a collapsed building, 248 hours after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake which struck parts of Türkiye and Syria, in Kahramanmaras on February 16, 2023. OZAN KOSE / AFP
Teams have been finding survivors all week despite them being trapped under rubble for so long in freezing weather, but the numbers rescued alive have dropped to just a handful in the past few days. The rescues come after teams on Friday pulled a 45-year-old man from rubble, several hours after others found three people including a 14-year-old boy alive under debris.
Officials and medics said 39,672 people had died in Türkiye and 3,688 in Syria from the February 6 quake, bringing the confirmed total to 43,360. The building where footballer Atsu died, a 12-storey luxury block of flats, was built in 2013 when Türkiye had tougher rules on construction.Turkish police have since arrested the building’s contractor after he tried to flee the country, Anadolu reported last week.
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