A 30-year-old woman was rescued alive on Thursday in the Turkish province of Karamanmaras, after spending 258 hours trapped in the remains of a building collapsed by the earthquakes that devastated southeastern Turkey and northern Syria ten days ago. leaving more than 40,000 dead.
Neslihan Kiliç was pulled out of the rubble alive after hard hours of work by the rescue teams and immediately transferred by ambulance to a hospital, Turkish television reported.
This rescue comes ten hours after that of a 17-year-old girl, also pulled from under the rubble in Kahramanmaras, where the epicenter of the first earthquake was recorded.
According to the AFAD emergency agency, Turkey has so far recorded 36,187 fatalities from the quake, and 108,000 injured.
The region affected by the earthquakes, of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6, extends for 100,000 square kilometers and is home to 14 million people.
