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Turkey Earthquake news: Eight-year-old boy rescued after over 80 hours

Reported by:  PTC News Desk  Edited by:  Annesha Barua -- February 09th 2023 06:51 PM
Turkey Earthquake news: Eight-year-old boy rescued after over 80 hours

Turkey Earthquake news: Eight-year-old boy rescued after over 80 hours

Turkey, Syria earthquake news, February 9: In the recent shocking series of earthquakes that took place in Turkey and Syria since Monday where the death toll crossed 17,000 on Thursday. Turkey and Syria earthquake news have risen anger and also left frustrated over the slow arrival of rescue teams.

According to reports at least 14,000 people have died in Turkey, as per to the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while at least 3,162 have been killed in Syria.

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Turkey earthquake rescue operation team are continuously to search through the rubble looking for survivors. The nation and aids from all over the world are now trying to understand why this natural disaster – for which the country was supposedly preparing for more than 20 years – caused so much damage to its infrastructure.

While Turkey earthquake rescue operation was on, after more than 80 hours since the deadly earthquakes struck, an eight-year-old boy has been rescued from under the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Diyarbakir, Turkey.

The eight-year-old-boy rescued in Turkey and was immediately taken to the nearby hospital. More than tens of thousands of people across Turkey and Syria have become homeless after the devastating earthquakes.

Videos from all over pouring in as rescuers pulling out survivors from rubble. Turkey death toll is expected to cross 18,000 according to sources. 

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- With inputs from agencies

Electrical Saftey authority
Chandigarh Group of Colleges

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