A woman was rescued from the rubble of a building in southern Turkey’s Hatay province by a Ukrainian team on Tuesday, some 205 hours after a devastating earthquake hit the region, CNN Turkey reported.
Their rescue brings the number of survivors pulled from the ruins on Tuesday to seven, eight days after one of the worst earthquakes in the country’s modern history.
On Tuesday, rescue workers also pulled an 18-year-old boy and a man alive from the rubble – a day after they rescued a 10-year-old girl believed to have been buried for around 185 hours.
Eight days after the quake and its violent aftershocks, more than 36,000 people have been confirmed dead and stories of survival are becoming few and far between.
On Monday, United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said during a visit to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo that the rescue phase of the response was “coming to an end”.
“And now the humanitarian phase, the urgency of providing shelter, psychosocial care, food, schooling and a sense of the future for these people, this is our obligation now,” he said.
After announcing the end of its search and rescue operation last week, the “White Helmets” group, officially known as the Civil Defense of Syria, on Monday declared a seven-day period of mourning in rebel-held areas in the north. from the country.
International aid has been slow to reach rebel-held parts of Syria, complicated by years of conflict and an ongoing humanitarian crisis that has led to extra hardship for survivors who lack food, shelter and medicine as they face freezing conditions.
On Monday, the UN welcomed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s decision to open two more border crossings between Turkey and Syria to allow aid into the north of the country.
Source: CNN Brasil
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