10-Year-Old Girl Miraculously Rescued After 183 Hours... 37,000 Dead in Turkey Earthquake

Miraculous Survival Continues
Focus Shifts from Rescuing Buried Victims to Supporting Survivors

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwon Haeyoung] A week has passed since a massive earthquake struck T?rkiye (Turkey) and Syria on the 6th (local time), and miraculous rescue news continues to emerge. The death toll from the earthquake has exceeded 37,000.

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According to local media in T?rkiye on the 13th (local time), a 10-year-old girl was rescued after being trapped under building debris for 183 hours in Kahramanmara? in the south. In a village in Hatay Province in the south, a 13-year-old boy survived after being buried for 182 hours.

The T?rkiye-Oman rescue team succeeded in rescuing a woman who had been buried for 176 hours in Antakya that morning. A woman in her 40s was also rescued after 170 hours of being buried in the village of ?slahiye in Gaziantep Province. A few hours before this woman was rescued, a woman in her 60s miraculously survived in the small village of Besni in Adıyaman Province.

Although miraculous rescue news, far exceeding the 72-hour so-called golden survival time, is occasionally reported, hope for rescuing survivors is fading as time passes.

The official death toll in T?rkiye and Syria has reached 37,000. T?rkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority reported 31,643 deaths. In the rebel-held area of northwestern Syria bordering T?rkiye, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported at least 4,300 deaths and 7,600 injuries. Including the death toll reported by the Syrian government, 5,147 people have died in Syria. The death toll reported by foreign media exceeds 37,000. This surpasses the scale of casualties from the Iran earthquake disaster (31,000 deaths) by a large margin.

This T?rkiye earthquake has been recorded as the sixth deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century.

Eduardo Reinoso Angulo, a professor at the Engineering Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, stated that the likelihood of survivors existing at this point is very low. He explained, "The chance of survival for people trapped under debris becomes very low after five days, and although there are exceptions, after nine days it is close to 0%."

Survivors are also enduring painful times, suffering from cold, hunger, and fears of infectious diseases. Looting incidents are also occurring. In some areas, the focus has shifted from rescuing buried victims to supporting the survivors who remain alive. Rescue operations have ended in seven areas of Kahramanmara?.

In Syria, relief efforts are being hampered as the rebel-held areas in the northwest refuse approval for humanitarian aid supplies.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.