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Earthquake in Turkey: Zeyneb rescued by German team is dead

2023-02-11T11:39:30.510Z


The news of their rescue after more than 100 hours under rubble went around the world. A few hours later, the German team, which was able to rescue the woman alive, now had to announce her death.


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Images of Zeyneb's rescue: succumbing to her injuries

Photo: PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW / REUTERS

It was one of the rare pieces of good news these days after the devastating earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border area: On Friday afternoon, German emergency services managed to rescue a woman who had been buried for more than 100 hours alive.

The 40-year-old was rescued in Kirikhan, Turkey, after an operation lasting more than 50 hours.

Now the aid organization Isar Germany had to announce that the woman with the first name Zeynep succumbed to her injuries.

"SAD NEWS - Zeynep died during the night," reads a post on Instagram.

Nine year old boy rescued

Meanwhile, isolated rescues have been reported in the past few hours.

The Israeli army said a nine-year-old boy was trapped in a collapsed house in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, for around 120 hours.

He is the third member of a family to be recovered by the team, after his father and 14-year-old sister.

His mother, on the other hand, was found dead.

The boy was rescued on Friday evening after a difficult operation that lasted more than 24 hours.

The boy, whose first name was Ridban, was looked after by an Israeli pediatrician.

After the rescue, he was taken to a hospital for further medical treatment.

The pediatrician said he got to the child through a kind of tunnel that the team dug: “You could see the boy’s head and one hand, so I gave him an IV with liquid and initial medication to stabilize him give.” Only then was he rescued.

Helpers in Turkey and Syria are still looking for survivors of the earthquake that hit the border region on Monday with a magnitude of 7.8.

At least 24,000 people were killed.

But the salvage work is a race against time: the critical survival limit for those buried is normally 72 hours.

Situation in Syria “remains extremely precarious”

Meanwhile, international aid is gaining momentum.

The World Bank promised Turkey 1.78 billion dollars (around 1.66 billion euros).

The US announced an initial $85 million aid package for Turkey and Syria.

The aid from Germany also picked up speed.

According to Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD), after the first aid flights on Thursday, three more flights from Wunstorf Air Base in Lower Saxony with more than 40 tons of material on board were planned for Friday.

In the next few days, things will "continue like this," said Pistorius in the morning during a joint visit with Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) in Wunstorf.

The aid deliveries are hampered by the destroyed infrastructure and the winter weather.

In the civil war country Syria, the disaster region is divided into areas controlled by Damascus and territories controlled by anti-government and predominantly Islamist militias.

The first two aid convoys since the earthquake arrived in north-western Syria, which is controlled by opposition fighters, on Thursday and Friday.

The aid organization White Helmets was "very disappointed" that the first aid delivery was "routine" help and not equipment for recovery work after the quake.

The Malteser relief service stated that the situation in the Syrian earthquake areas "continues to be extremely precarious".

Among other things, there is a lack of electricity and clearing equipment.

Syria's ruler Bashar al-Assad visited the disaster area, which is under the control of Damascus, for the first time since the tremors of early Monday morning.

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Source: spiegel

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