Tajik rescuers have saved another child

A 3-year-old child spent 158 hours under the rubble before being rescued by Tajik rescuers.

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According to Turkish media, on February 12, Tajik rescuers, numbering 51, managed to pull the child alive from the rubble formed as a result of the earthquake on the morning of February 6 in the city of Kahramanmaraş.

After the 3-year-old boy was rescued from the rubble, he was examined by medical personnel and taken to the hospital.

In a video published by Anadolu Agency, those around are seen rejoicing and wiping tears of joy after the infant was saved.

As reported by Turkish media, seven days after the devastating earthquake, rescuers from Tajikistan are still trying to save those remaining under the rubble.

The Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense of Tajikistan also reported that rescue operations in Turkey are ongoing.

“On February 12, 2023, after many hours of search and rescue operations, in the Onikisubat area of Kahramanmaraş, using special equipment to search for people under the rubble, the emergency committee’s rescuers managed to locate and extract a three-year-old child named Yavuz. He had been under the rubble for 158 hours! To avoid frightening the child further, the rescuers turned off the equipment and crawled to him,” the committee’s statement noted.

Unfortunately, during the emergency rescue operations, rescuers from the emergency committee recovered 78 bodies of the deceased, the statement noted.

It was previously reported that on February 12, rescuers from the Tajikistan emergency committee managed to rescue a father and his 6-month-old child, who had been trapped under the debris of a building for six days.

According to official data, the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey has reached 29,605 people, while in Syria it stands at 4,500 people.