A young girl has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in the Turkish city of Izmir, four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece on the 3rd of November.
The girl was seen being taken into an ambulance, wrapped in a thermal blanket, as rescue workers and onlookers clapped and chanted “God is great”.
Rescuer Nusret Aksoy told reporters that he heard a child scream and asked his colleagues for silence so they could locate her. Rescuers said she waved at them, told them her name and said she was okay.
Rescue teams have rescued two girls alive from the wreckage of their collapsed apartment buildings in the Turkish coastal area of Izmir, three days after a powerful earthquake hit Turkey and Greece.
The overall death toll reached 91 on Monday after teams found more bodies overnight and Monday morning amid the rubble in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city.
Approximately 1,000 people were injured in the quake, which was centred in the Aegean Sea, northeast of the Greek island of Samos.buy viagra generic mexicanpharmacyonlinerx.net over the counter It killed two teenagers on Samos and injured at least 19 other people on the island.
More than 774 wounded victims have so far been discharged from hospitals, according to Turkey’s disaster and emergency authority (AFAD).
More than 3,500 tents and 13,000 beds were supplied to provide temporary shelter in Izmir, it added.