A 12-year-old girl named Cudie was rescued alive from a building in Hatay, a town in southern Turkey, after spending more than 150 hours among the rubble of the great earthquake that shook the country and neighboring Syria last Monday and which It has already left a balance of more than 33,000 dead.
Cudie is not the only survivor found this Sunday. Six and a half days after the first great earthquake, of which there have been numerous aftershocks, people continue to appear alive and with surprising integrity.
A video released by the Istanbul Municipality shows emergency teams in Hatay pulling a 10-year-old girl through a hole in the rubble of a building. Video released by Turkey's Health Ministry shows the girl lying quietly on a stretcher, bruised and covered in dust, as rescuers carry her to safety.
Another "miracle rescue" has been that of an eight-year-old boy who was rescued injured but alive in the town of Nurdagi, in the province of Gaziantep, after 155 hours in the rubble.
Shortly before, teams had pulled two sisters, ages 22 and 28, from a collapsed building in Adiyaman, northeast of the epicenter, after being trapped for 152 hours.
A three or four-year-old girl endured one hundred and fifty hours, who was saved this Sunday in Antioquia, one of the cities most affected by the quake, where the old town has been practically completely destroyed.
Just an hour before, a 35-year-old man in the same city came out alive after five hours of work, as well as an 85-year-old woman, trapped for 152 hours in a space of 30 centimeters, but safe and sound.
In the same city, a 32-year-old teacher was saved this morning, who after 140 hours among the rubble did not hesitate to ask her rescuers for a glass of hot tea, reports the Turkish public broadcaster TRT.
The reaction of a five-year-old girl had been different. When she was rescued with her mother after 72 hours trapped in Antioquia, she refused a glass of water with the words: "No, they haven't made the diagnosis yet."
A 13-year-old girl had less confidence in the doctors who, after being saved today in the town of Besni in Adiyaman, after 145 hours of waiting, asked the health workers not to give her an injection.
Also today, a twelve-year-old girl was saved alive in the town of Nizip in the province of Gaziantep, who had survived 147 hours under ruins.
The low temperatures, around zero degrees in a large part of the region, toughen the rescue conditions, but they may have contributed to saving some lives, according to what members of the Spanish fire team working in the area explained to EFE.
The rubble stores some heat, so it's less cold under a collapsed building than it is outside, but since it's not hot, the trapped people don't sweat and dehydrate as quickly as they would in summer.
