Friday, October 28, 2011

13yr Boy pulled out alive five days after Turkey quake


The rescue lifted Turkish spirits as thousands of quake survivors endured another freezing and wet night without a roof over their heads.

The boy, named as Serhat Tokay, was put in a neck brace and taken on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance after being rescued in the town of Ercis, the hardest hit by Sunday's 7.2 magnitude quake, television images showed.

He was the second person to be rescued within a matter of hours after an 18-year-old man was brought out on Thursday evening to cheers among grief-stricken quake survivors.

People left homeless by the quake in the predominantly Kurdish eastern province of Van have complained bitterly over the slow delivery of relief items like tents.

Drenched by pouring rain, more and more people are falling sick, and with the first winter snows expected in November there is an urgent need to get people under cover fast.

Although most search operations are beginning to wind down, more than 180 people have been found alive under collapsed buildings since the quake struck, according to an official count.

By late on Thursday, the death toll was 535, with 2,300 people hurt in Turkey's biggest quake in more than a decade.

No official figures were available for the homeless.

Source: ABC News

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