A mother and two children have been rescued in the Turkish city of Antakya more than 228 hours after the twin earthquakes that devastated southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Ela and her two children – Meysam and Ali – were pulled from the rubble of their apartment block, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported.
Earlier on Wednesday, a 74-year-old woman and a 46-year-old woman were rescued in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, close to the epicentre of the quake.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says his country has raised $11.4m to provide humanitarian assistance for survivors of the Turkey-Syria earthquakes, according to the official Bernama news agency.
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Anwar made the announcement after a short trip to Turkey, where he met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and visited some of the hardest-hit areas in the country, including the cities of Nurdagi and Gaziantep.
He said some 250 Malaysian personnel were in Turkey, helping with the search and rescue effort, according to a statement from his office. The prime minister also pledged to send a team to Syria next week to help with the recovery operation there.
Volunteers in Turkey’s Gaziantep are stepping in to help with the earthquake relief effort, including search and rescue operations, delivering food and setting up temporary shelters for survivors.
Among them is Levant, a member of the search and rescue team.
‘I wanted to leave Turkey and emigrate to Europe,’ he told reporters. ‘But now I want to stay and volunteer for the coming months. After the rescue operations will end, I want to keep volunteering in other fields to support my people.’
Abdul Kareem, originally from Afghanistan, who says he is an “expert at tent building” is helping to shelter survivors.