The city of Kahramanmaraş in southeastern Turkey lies in ruins. There are ambulances, fire engines and hearses with blue lights everywhere. Trucks full of food honking. People shout, cry, others hand out food. Excavators dig in stone, steel. Remains of nightgowns peek out. Suddenly there is complete silence. The relatives have sat sleepless around a fire in front of what was once a home. Now some of them are getting their hope back. Rescue work in Kahramanmaraş. Photo: Julia Kirsebom Thommessen / news Suddenly the noise is heard again. A person is carried out of the crowd. Alive, after four days under the building blocks, in freezing temperatures, without food and water. The congregation shouts “Allahu Akbar”, God is great. A woman sits with her brother and family friends around the fire. He has traveled from the US to be with her. Onlookers watch as survivors are pulled from the rubble. Photo: Julia Kirsebom Thommessen / news Like the other relatives, they sit and watch as the aid workers try to dig out their loved ones. The woman has lost her parents, sister and children in the earthquake. The parents are still in the building blocks. Pair of brothers rescued after 82 hours In all the misery after the powerful earthquake, there are still glimmers of hope. Two brothers aged five and eleven and a two-year-old boy were rescued alive from collapsed buildings in Turkey on Thursday. The brothers were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in the town of Malatya on Thursday, 82 hours after the quake. The 5-year-old Furkan and 11-year-old Doğukan were rescued from a collapsed building on Thursday. PHOTO: ADAN The two boys were rescued together with the family’s cat. The rescuers first managed to reach the five-year-old, before they got the elder man, who is autistic, out, reports the Turkish TV station NTV. Both are injured and sent to hospital. Two-year-old rescued A few hours earlier, a two-year-old boy was rescued alive in the city of Antakya. By then he had been trapped for 79 hours, according to the Turkish aid organization IHH. The boy, who was wearing a striped sweater, cried as he was carefully lifted out of the hole he has been trapped in since Monday. A 14-year-old girl was rescued from a collapsed building in Kahramanmaraş on Thursday. Photo: RONEN ZVULUN / Reuters In Hatay, Abdulalim Muaini was taken out of his collapsed home, where he had been trapped until his wife died from the injuries she sustained in the earthquake on Monday. In Malatya, a 60-year-old Meral Nakir was rescued from an apartment block after 77 hours. Here, the three-year-old is rescued in Afrin, Syria. REUTERS / NOON POST / HOTHAIFA DAHMAN In Syria, a three-year-old boy receives hospital treatment after being found alive in what was once his family’s home in the town of Jandaris on Thursday. The boy had to have one of his legs amputated. The death toll is rising The death toll has passed 19,000 and it is thus clear that the earthquake is the worst in the region since the earthquake that hit Turkey in 1999. At that time 17,000 people died. At the same time, the cold and hunger are now taking the hundreds of thousands of people who have become homeless. In war-torn Syria, the situation is hopeless, but the first cars came across the border from Turkey with emergency aid on Thursday. The UN says just under 11 million people have been affected in Hama, Latakia, Idlib, Aleppo and Tartus.
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