Three people, including a child, have been found alive under the rubble this Saturday in Hatay, in southern Turkey, 13 days after the earthquake that shook that country and Syria on February 6, according to local press reports.
Rescue teams have pulled the three survivors from the ruins of a building 296 hours after the earthquake that caused more than 40,000 deaths, according to the private Turkish channel NTV, which has broadcast images of them on stretchers on their way to an ambulance.
The age and identity of the survivors are still unknown.
Another survivor, a 45-year-old man, was found on Friday night, 278 hours after the earthquake, in Hatay province, near the Syrian border, which includes the devastated city of Antakya.
The latest official balance of victims of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that shook Turkey is 39,672 dead.
The chances of survival now seem less around the epicenter of the quake, further north, in mountainous regions such as Kahramanmaras, and even in snowy Elbistan and Adiyaman, where the thermometer dropped to minus 15°C at night, the teams found. from the AFP.
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