A QUAKE survivor was found last night after spending 183 hours buried under debris.
Huseyin Berber was carried from the remains of his house in Antakya, southern Turkey, which had been destroyed for more than seven days.Five hours earlier, as young Hivay User, dressed in the pyjamas she was sleeping in, was rescued from the debris in Adiyamkan, rescuers chanted “God is magnificent.”
Naide Umay was let free 175 hours after the calamity struck in hard-hit Hatay.
But the likelihood of additional rescues is fading. Crews claim that with nighttime lows as low as -6C, they are at their limit.
The scramble to provide shelter and food has taken precedence over the rescue phase, UN assistance head Martin Griffiths said.
Eighty percent of the buildings in Pazarcik, a distant village of 30,000 people located above the first 7.8 magnitude earthquake, were demolished or damaged.
A ragged line of the homeless and hungry waits alongside a major road for at least 500 metres in hopes of receiving blankets and food.
Several survivors snooze in their vehicles. One of the families in tents at a football stadium is a family of seven.
The children, aged one to ten, yet manage wide smiles as Red Crescent employees feed them energising chocolate biscuits and soft drinks despite the fact that they lack heating and toys.
Volunteer Anastasia Ozdemir, 40, said: “It breaks my heart to see these poor children living like this.”
