The Turkey Miracle Continues... Survivor Rescued After 248 Hours

17-Year-Old Girl Rescued from Apartment Debris on 11th Day After Accident

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] Miraculous news of survivor rescue was reported on the 11th day after the T?rkiye earthquake disaster.

According to local media on the 16th (local time), around noon that day, 17-year-old girl Eleyna Yolmez was rescued from the rubble of an apartment in southern Kahramanmara?. It was about 248 hours, or 10 days and 8 hours, after the earthquake occurred. Although it was well past the golden time, there were survivors.

On the afternoon of the 10th (local time), buildings in the city of Antakya, Hatay, Turkey, were collapsed due to the earthquake.

The rescued girl was carried on a stretcher and transported to the hospital by ambulance. In the broadcast footage, the survivor was covered with a thermal gold foil blanket and had an IV drip in her hand. She was reported to have been wearing a neck brace and had her eyes closed.

Rescue operations to save survivors continue until the very end in the earthquake-affected areas of T?rkiye. The day before, a 13-year-old boy was rescued in southern Hatay Province about 229 hours after the earthquake, and an hour earlier, a woman and her two children were rescued in Hatay Province.

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