miracles saved near the epicenter

Unexpected. Mustafa has just spent almost eleven days under the rubble of a clinic, he is alive. His first call is for his friend who thought him dead. Twelve hours earlier, in Kahramanmaras, very close to the epicenter of the earthquake, a 17-year-old girl was found. His rescuers, these coal mine workers. Despite spending 10 days and 8 hours buried, Aleyna says she is in good health. Neither drink nor eat for 10 days, this is exceptional but not impossible, according to a specialist.

A worker jumps from his excavator in extremis

In the same city, Thursday February 16, another young girl was brought out alive from the rubble of her apartment. His family had already started preparing for his funeral. “We had already dug his grave”, says Gazi Yildirim, the survivor’s brother-in-law. Miracles increasingly rare, especially since rescue operations are very risky. In Hatay, a worker managed to jump off his backhoe in extremis, as a building collapsed on top of him.