IZMIR, Turkey — In scenes that captured Turkey’s emotional roller-coaster after a deadly earthquake, rescue workers dig two girls out alive from the rubble of collapsed apartment buildings three days after the region was jolted by a quake that killed scores of people.
Onlookers applaud in joy and weep with relief as ambulances carrying the girls rush to the hospital immediately after their rescues in the hard-hit city of Izmir.
The overall death toll in Friday’s quake reached 87 today after teams find more bodies amid toppled buildings in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city.
Close to 1,000 people were injured, mostly in Turkey, by the quake that was centered in the Aegean Sea northeast of the Greek island of Samos. The death toll included two teenagers on Samos and at least 19 other people on the island were injured.
There was some debate over the quake’s magnitude. The US Geological Survey rated it 7.0, while Istanbul’s Kandilli Institute put it at 6.9 and Turkey’s emergency management agency said it measured 6.6.
Rescue workers clapped in unison as 14-year-old Idil Sirin was removed from the rubble, after being trapped for 58 hours. Her 8-year-old sister, Ipek, did not survive, NTV television reports.
Seven hours later, rescuers working on another toppled building extricate 3-year-old Elif Perincek, whose mother and two sisters had been rescued two days earlier. The child spent 65 hours in the wreckage of her apartment and became the 106th person to be rescued alive, the state-run Anadolu Agency reports.
— AP
In this photo of IHA news agency, provided by the government rescue agency AFAD’s rescue teams, rescue workers, who were trying to reach survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building, carry 14-year-old Idil Sirin who have been extricated from a collapsed building, November 2, 2020, 58 hours after a strong earthquake in Izmir, Turkey. (IHA via AP)
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