Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter that on Friday, 278 hours after the earthquake in southern Turkey on February 6, a man was found under the rubble. According to the private channel NTV, 45-year-old Hakan Yasinoglu was found on February 12. The disaster is under the rubble in the province of Hatay, not far from the Syrian border, which includes the completely destroyed city of Antioch.
A survivor was pulled from a mountain of rubble, according to a video clip released by Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who sent rescue teams from the municipality to the affected areas.
Three new survivors have been found in downtown Antioch: two men aged 33 and 26 were rescued after the quake’s “261 hours” and a 14-year-old boy before them, Koca said Friday morning.
The latest official death toll from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 at 0400 (0100 GMT) topped 41,000.
Agence France-Presse teams have indicated that chances of survival have decreased around the epicenter in the north, in mountainous areas such as Kahramanmarash, and even in the snow-covered areas of Al Bustan and Adiyaman, where temperatures dropped to -15 degrees Celsius at night.
