Watch the video: rescuers fight for woman who has survived under rubble for 80 hours.
It is just one fate of many in the earthquake region in Turkey at the moment: Here in Kirikhan, far in the south of the country, not far from the Syrian border, German rescue workers, among others, have been trying for many hours to free a woman from under the rubble. “We have an approximately 40-year-old woman. With a current and relatively unclear pattern of injuries. But apparently moving her extremities. She’s been here since the earthquake began, so almost 72 hours inside. We’ve been freeing, recovering, for almost 36 hours now . We have several layers of relatively solid concrete material on top. We are slowly working through that because the localization was relatively difficult.” // “The colleagues are currently working on the last record. Yes, we’ll drill a hole there, hold the camera in, see how we proceed. Because she’s lying on her stomach. And that makes things quite difficult, of course, because we actually have to turn her so that she comes out at the top. She is currently supplied with water. We have laid a line where she drinks something. She does that independently. She speaks.” According to experts, the chances of rescuing other people alive under the collapsed buildings decrease sharply after three days. In addition, the wintry weather conditions make the work for the rescue services much more difficult. And even around 80 hours after the earthquake, the full extent of the catastrophe is still not foreseeable. Also because the affected area is extremely large.