VIDEO: 77-year-old woman pulled alive from rubble after 212 hours in Turkey

Gulf Today Report

The Turkish emergency services managed to rescue a 77-year-old woman, 212 hours after being buried under the rubble of a destroyed building in the city of Gaziantep, after the earthquakes in the south of the country, near the border with Syria.

After an intense effort by Turkish search teams in the city of Adiyaman, Fatma Gungor, 77, was rescued from the ruins of a seven-story building after being trapped for 212 hours, before being transferred to a hospital where she received medical attention.

After the rescue, Gungor's relatives - who were waiting around the remains — hugged and thanked the search and rescue teams for bringing the woman alive, who had been buried for almost nine days.

A week after the earthquakes, emergency services continue to search for people to rescue, a task that becomes more difficult with each passing hour, since the standard time that a human being can go without food or water intake in disasters like this is 72 hours.

The earthquake caused 35,500 deaths in Turkey and more than 5,800 among the figures offered by the health authorities of the Syrian government of Bashar Al Assad and those of the rebels in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest), according to various balances published in recent hours.