Unfortunately more than 7 million children were affected by the tremor that occurred with the earthquake Turkey and Syria.
Ten days after the terrible earthquake that hit a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale which in total took more than 40 thousand lives, the rescue forces are still able to extract people alive from the rubble.
According to the Turkish news agency Anadolu, today (16) it was withdrawn one 17 year old teenager call Aleya Olmez , rescued in the city of kahramanmaras.
It is one of the cities most affected by the incident.
The teenager was buried in the rubble of her building that collapsed for more than 250 hours.
Once it was removed, olmez He has already received all the help from the medical team, receiving serum and oxygen.
In another recent case it was a 77-year-old lady rescued alive in Adiyaman on Tuesday (14) at Golcuk Shipyard Command.
Identified as Fatma Gungor, 212 hours after the earthquake.
These rescues were an additional incentive for the rescue teams who take turns in alternate shifts and with little rest, to remain firm in the search for more lives among the wreckage.
According to records, the number of deaths rose to 41,987, with 36,187 of them in Turkey and 5,800 in Syria.
the earthquake
The big tremor happened at dawn on February 6 in the town of kahramanmaras, southeast of Turkey and close to the border with Syria.
Followed by over 4,500 smaller replicas and reaching 7.8 on the Richter scale.
The Turks already have devastating earthquakes in their history, as in 1999 when another 7.6 earthquake was recorded that caused immense damage and claimed more than 17,000 lives.
One of the factors on the vulnerability of Turkey, is explained by the fact that the country is located in one of the seismic zones most active in the world, with several geological faults.
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