Turkish rescuers managed to pull a live baby out from under the rubble of a building in Hatay state 140 hours after the earthquake in the south of the country, the Greater Kocaeli Municipality of Kocaeli said in a statement. brigades rescued baby Hamza from the rubble A building in the Antakya district of Hatay, Turkish news agency Anadolu reports.
The statement stated that the brigades took Hamza, who is 7 months old, after 140 hours of being under the rubble, and handed him over to the ambulance team for transportation to the hospital.
The World Health Organization announced on Saturday that the number of people affected by the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria this week had reached about 26 million, warning that dozens of hospitals had been damaged.
With the quake’s death toll surpassing 25,000, the United Nations World Health Organization launched an urgent appeal Saturday to raise $42.8 million to help it meet immediate and basic health needs.
