ISTANBUL, Feb 7 Rescuers in Turkey succeed after 29 hours to extract alive a 30-year-old woman and her 6-month-old baby from the rubble of a building that collapsed after an earthquake, TRT channel reports.
«In the Odabashi district of Hatay province, rescuers pulled 30-year-old Hyulya Yilmaz and her six-month-old daughter Ayse Vera Yilmaz alive from the rubble of a building after 29:00,» the TV channel reports.
The rescued are hospitalized, the search and rescue operation continues.
On the morning of February 6, an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 occurred in the southeast of Turkey, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it was the strongest since 1939. On Monday afternoon, another earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck. The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey, according to the latest data, exceeds 3.4 thousand, more than 20 thousand were injured. President Tayyip Erdogan has declared seven days of national mourning in Turkey for the victims of the natural disaster.
Destruction was also reported in several regions of Syria, tremors were also felt in the capital of Lebanon, Beirut. In Syria, the number of victims at the moment is more than 800 people, more than 1.4 thousand were injured.