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Heartbreaking photographs show the moment a mother and her son were rescued from the wreckage of a building in Turkey that collapsed 117 hours after the earthquake in Turkey.
The photos show Ozlem Yilmaz, 35, and his daughter Hatice, 6, being carried to safety in the arms of a rescuer in Adiyaman, in a south-eastern region devastated by Monday’s earthquake.
Rescuers risked their lives to save the family when a man, wearing no protective gear, crawled into the cave after heavy machinery forced an opening through the rubble.
The baby can be seen lying on a stretcher as a rescue team carries her to safety.
Other rescue missions have also been involved across the devastated country, as footage shows the happy moment a traumatized-looking black and white cat was rescued from Hatay, four and a half hours away.
Ozlem Yilmaz, 35, and his daughter Hatice, 6, were carried to safety in the arms of a rescuer in Adiyaman.
The baby survived and can be seen lying on a stretcher as she was carried to safety.
Across Turkey, more than 20,665 were killed in addition to at least 3,500 in Syria.
The death toll has risen as more than 24,150 people have died; in Turkey, more than 20,665 were killed in addition to at least 3,500 in Syria.
Some 80,000 people are being treated in hospitals, while 1.05 million have been left homeless.
Thousands of people across the country are rescued every day as more than 31,000 rescuers from hundreds of Turkish communities come together to help find each other’s loved ones.
In Turkey’s largest city, Diyarbakir, around 67 people have made their way to safety in the past 24 hours after being trapped under the devastating rubble of their home caused by the 7.7-magnitude quake.
A 13-year-old boy was also rescued from under a collapsed building in Hatay when the brave young man was found 128 hours after the first earthquake.
Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said: “Our main goal is to make sure they return to a normal life by providing them with permanent housing within a year and heal their pain as soon as possible.”
The country has now opened its Alican border crossing after 35 years.
Trucks are using the crossing to transport humanitarian aid from Turkey’s neighboring feeder, Armenia.
Unfortunately, this community effort is not the case for everyone, as looters were caught messing with damaged properties amid the fallout.
His family home collapsed 117 hours after the earthquake in Turkey wreaked devastation across the city.
The team used heavy machinery to plow through the rubble in hopes of rescuing families crushed under the building.
Other rescue missions have also been involved across the devastated country as footage shows the happy moment when a traumatized looking black and white cat was rescued from Hatay.
Thousands of people across the country are rescued every day as more than 31,000 rescuers from hundreds of Turkish communities come together to help find the loved ones of others, including their beloved animals.
Trucks were seen crossing the Alican crossing to transport humanitarian aid from Armenia
These selfish looters were not taken lightly by grieving families as footsteps of Turkish police and angry bystanders emerged, herding and beating the thugs.
There were reports of earthquake victims being forced to break into supermarkets and loot food and shelter, lest they succumb to sub-zero temperatures with no supplies to their name.
But as with any natural disaster, for every victim in need there are plenty of opportunistic thieves seizing the opportunity to take what they can, wherever they can amidst the chaos.
Videos circulating on social media showed a number of suspected looters, many of whom were too well groomed and impeccably dressed to have been caught up in the quake, being arrested by police.
Later, their captors forced them to kneel in rows, and some of those who protested were kicked or restrained.
Other clips saw angry citizens dishing out slaps and some kicks before the disgraced robbers were led away by the military.
In some cases, the beatings went beyond the limit for the security officers who were forced to intervene to prevent the accused from sustaining serious injuries at the hands of the vigilantes.
Angry citizens reeling from the quake beat up many of the looters they had helped round up along with security officers. A man is seen kicking and standing on the head of a looter. It is not clear if he is a watchman or a security officer.
A man is seen lying on the ground and is hit in the face. Footage then shows others on the ground, with blood splattered on the pavement.
Military officers lead a suspected looter away from damaged property in a headlock with his arms pinned behind his back.
The initial 7.8-magnitude overnight tremor, followed hours later by a slightly smaller one, leveled entire sections of major Turkish cities in a region filled with millions of people who have fled the civil war in Syria and other conflicts.
The latest 7.5-magnitude quake struck at 1:24 p.m. (1024 GMT) two and a half miles southeast of the city of Ekinozu and about 60 miles north of the first quake that has wreaked devastation in Turkey and Syria.
The first quake on Monday was centered north of Gaziantep, Turkey, which is about 60 miles from the Syrian border, has a population of about 2 million and hosts a large number of Syrian refugees.
It struck at 04:17 local time (0117 GMT) at a depth of about 11 miles, the US Geological Survey said. A strong 6.7 aftershock rumbled about 10 minutes later, wreaking more havoc. Turkey’s own agency said 40 aftershocks were felt.
GMT) at a depth of about 11 miles, the US Geological Survey said. A strong 6.7 aftershock rumbled about 10 minutes later, wreaking more havoc. Turkey’s own agency said 40 aftershocks were felt.
Buildings were reported to have collapsed as far south as the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Hama to Diyarbakir in Turkey, more than 200 miles to the northeast.
Tremors from the quake, which lasted about a minute and could be the largest in Turkey’s history, were felt as far away as Greenland, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland said. People also reported feeling tremors in Egypt, Lebanon and also Cyprus, while authorities in Italy briefly issued a tsunami warning.
Orhan Tatar, an official with Turkey’s disaster agency, told reporters that the two quakes were independent of each other. It was not immediately clear how much damage the second quake had caused, which like the first was felt across the region and endangered rescuers struggling to pull victims from the rubble.
After a magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck Buffalo, New York, in the United States, meteorologist Tyler Metcalf suggested on Twitter that the Turkey quake could have “destabilized fault lines around the world.”
Turkey’s Emergency and Disaster Management agency said there were 1,541 deaths as a result of the quake, with another 7,600 injured, in ten Turksih provinces. The president previously described it as the country’s biggest disaster since 1939 (when 33,000 people died in the Erzincan earthquake).