2 men rescued from rubble 261 hours after quakes hit Türkiye
Search and rescue teams found Mehmet Ali Şakiroğlu, 26, and Mustafa Avcı, 34, alive under the rubble in Hatay's Antakya district on Thursday night, 10 days after twin earthquakes.
- Türkiye
- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 09:15 | 17 February 2023
- Modified Date: 09:59 | 17 February 2023
Two men aged 26 and 34 were rescued from the rubble in Türkiye's Hatay province Thursday night, 261 hours or 10 days after two major earthquakes struck southern provinces in the country.
Search and rescue teams found Mehmet Ali Şakiroğlu, 26, and Mustafa Avcı, 34, alive under the rubble in Antakya district.
They were then taken to a hospital.
At least 38,044 people were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, the country's disaster agency said early Friday.
The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes were centered in Kahramanmaraş and struck 10 other provinces-Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Hatay, Gaziantep, Malatya, Kilis, Osmaniye, Elazığ and Şanlıurfa. More than 13 million people have been affected by the devastating quakes.
Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, also felt the strong tremors that struck Türkiye in the space of less than 10 hours.
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