Salvadoran President Najib Bukela announced that a woman and a child were pulled alive from the rubble by a Salvadoran rescue team in southern Turkey six days after the earthquake, El Salvadoran President Najib Bukela said. .
He added that a child named Malih Evi Ozcan, who is about 5 years old, and a woman named Deniz Dal, who is about 30 years old, were transferred to the hospital.
The President accompanied his address with a video in which Salvadoran rescuers pull a child out of the rubble and put it on a stretcher, while screams and screams of people present are heard. The woman, recovered from the rubble, is then seen moving her arms before a medical collar is placed around her neck and carried out on a stretcher.
A rescue operation was carried out on Sunday morning from under the rubble of the Ibrar Setichi Hazal building in the Kahramanmaras region in southern Turkey, the President of El Salvador said.
Remarkably, the 7.8 Richter magnitude earthquake that hit the country last Monday, killing more than 35 people, turned Gaziantep into an almost completely devastated area, as entire houses were reduced to rubble and roads were blocked. while tents replaced buildings to house thousands of disaster survivors. While several organizations led by the United Nations expect the death toll to double in the coming days, especially as more debris is cleared.