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A mother and her newborn baby survive almost four days in the rubble in Turkey after the earthquake

2023-02-14T00:34:25.296Z


"The wall fell, the room was shaking and the building was changing position... I didn't realize that it had fallen down one floor," said the woman, who was left alone with her baby. A cupboard saved them, but they had no food or water and could not move.


Necla Camuz was breastfeeding her 10-day-old son Yagiz when the deadly earthquake, which has caused more than 35,000 deaths, struck Syria and Turkey.

Her mother and baby survived for almost four days under the rubble of a residential building in the Turkish city of Samandag.

Camuz, 33, was awake when her house began to shake.

The woman tried to run with her baby towards her husband and her other 3-year-old son but she got trapped, she told BBC news.

[An entire family is rescued alive five days after the earthquake that leaves more than 28,000 dead in Turkey and Syria]

“The wall fell, the room was shaking and the building was changing position.

When it (the earthquake) stopped, I didn't realize that I had fallen down one floor

.

I called out the names of my son and my husband, but there was no response

, ”the mother recounted.

From that moment on, she was left alone with her newborn son, whose name means "brave."

A closet saved them, but they had no food, no water, and they couldn't move either.

More than 35,000 people have died in the quake and the number continues to rise. Emrah Gurel / AP

"You plan a lot of things when you have a new baby and suddenly you're under rubble," he told the BBC.

She couldn't see anything and lost track of time, she said.

No one answered her when she yelled for help.

"She was terrified."

She kept her son alive by breastfeeding.

After almost four days trapped, she heard the barking of rescue dogs.

[Thousands of people offer to adopt a baby who survived the earthquake in Syria]

A team from the Istanbul Municipality Fire Department pulled them out of the ruins.

When they were transferred to the hospital, she learned that her husband and her 3-year-old son had also survived.

After a week of capsizing, more than 35,000 deaths and stories like these that seem like miracles, rescuers cling to the possibility of finding more survivors.

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The rescues continue

Meanwhile, in the southeast of Turkey, a girl, identified as Miray, was rescued on Monday

after spending a week trapped

in the rubble of a building in the city of Adiyaman.

Videos show her crying as she was placed on a gurney after 178 hours of agony.

On Friday,

six members of the same family were rescued

after what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described as one of the biggest catastrophes in his country's history.

There are still bodies to be recovered and counted, according to The Associated Press news agency, but the magnitude 7.8 earthquake has already caused more deaths than the one reported in 2011 in Fukushima, Japan, when nearly 20,000 people died.

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The battered region is a border area where some 13.5 million people lived.

Survivor stories repeat themselves as rescue efforts continue.

Experts estimate that a person can live at least a week under these conditions

, but as the days go by, the chances decrease.

[The construction failure that aggravated the earthquake catastrophe in Turkey and Syria is also present in buildings in California]

A team of rescuers from Germany worked for more than 50 hours to free a woman from a collapsed house in the Turkish city of Kirikhan.

Videos show rescuers giving children sweets to distract them or playing music to calm survivors.

A man walks past a destroyed building in Nurdagi, Turkey, on February 13, 2023.Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Meanwhile, morgues and cemeteries are overflowing.

Bodies remain wrapped in blankets, rugs and tarps on the streets of some cities, the AP reported.

Survivors also face freezing temperatures.

Some 80,000 people were injured according to counts and it is estimated that at least 5.3 million have been left homeless in Syria, according to United Nations data.

Source: telemundo

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