A woman is rescued from the ruins in Turkey after a week (Twitter)
A woman was rescued alive today (Monday) from the ruins of a building in southern Turkey, a week after the deadly earthquake that struck the country and neighboring Syria.
More than 33 thousand people died in the disaster, most of them in Turkey.
This is the deadliest noise in the country since 1939, and the number of victims is expected to continue to grow alongside some exciting moments of successful rescues.
In the morning, a woman named Sibal Kaya, 40, was pulled from the rubble in Gaziantep province, about 170 hours after the first of two major earthquakes that shook the region.
In Kahramanmarsh, rescuers made contact with three survivors buried under the rubble, apparently a mother, her daughter and a baby.
Yesterday, rescue teams from Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus pulled a man alive from a collapsed building, about 160 after he was buried under it.
In addition to him, a father and daughter, a toddler and a ten-year-old girl were among the survivors who were rescued yesterday from destroyed buildings in Turkey, but these moments are less and less common as the hours tick by.
At a mass funeral held near the town of al-Rihaniya, veiled women cried out as bodies were unloaded from a truck, some in closed wooden coffins, others in open coffins and others still wrapped in blankets.
Rescue of a woman from the ruins after 170 hours, today (photo: screenshot, Twitter)
In the city of Antakya, one of the epicenters of the disaster in Turkey, business owners emptied their shops for fear of looting.
Residents and aid workers from other cities testified to chaos and looting of many collapsed businesses and homes.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised that his government will take a tough hand against the looters, amid growing criticism of its response to the earthquake and its preparation for a disaster of this magnitude.
The earthquake could harm Erdogan's chances of being re-elected in the elections to be held in May, although government officials did not rule out the possibility that they would be postponed due to the disaster.
The authorities have even arrested more than a hundred contractors and construction workers in recent days on suspicion of construction offenses.
In Albistan, which was hit by a rumble nearly as strong as the first 7.8-magnitude earthquake, a cell phone shop owner combs through the rubble in hopes of finding usable phones.
"It was one of the busiest streets, and now it's almost completely gone," said 32-year-old Mustafa Bachiban.
This earthquake is the sixth deadliest natural disaster in the world this century, preceded by the earthquake that struck Pakistan in 2005 and killed about 73 thousand people.
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A man walks past a destroyed building in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, today (Photo: Reuters)
In Syria, the areas controlled by the rebels in the northwest of the country suffered the most damage from the earthquake.
Many Syrians who had already fled their homes due to the war have become displaced once again, while the region receives less aid compared to that going into areas controlled by the Assad regime.
"We have so far failed the people of northwestern Syria," said the head of the UN aid program, Martin Griffith, who visited the Turkish-Syrian border, where only one crossing is open for the delivery of aid. "They feel abandoned, rightly so." He added that He is focused on resolving this issue quickly.
A UN spokesman said the extremist group Tahrir al-Sham is delaying the entry of aid from government-held territories into rebel territories.
An official in the organization told Reuters that it will not allow such aid shipments but only through the border with Turkey.
The UN hopes to open two more crossings at the border to speed up efforts to bring supplies to the epicenters of the disaster.
"We are trying to say to everyone: put politics aside, it is time to unite around a joint effort to support the Syrian people," said the UN envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, who is in the economy. He said that the organization is raising funds to support the country, parts of which remain in ruins from the war more Before the earthquake, the
United States called on the Syrian government and all armed organizations to allow humanitarian aid to all who need it.
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