Turkey: Couple saved 296 hours after quake, but children die
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey: Couple saved 296 hours after quake, but children die

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A couple and their son were pulled alive from under a collapsed apartment building more than 12 days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ravaged parts of Turkey and Syria, although the child later died at a hospital, Turkish state media reported Saturday. A foreign search team from Kyrgyzstan rescued Samir Muhammed Accar, 49, his wife, Ragda, 40, and their 12-year-old son while digging through the rubble of the apartment building in the southern Turkish city of Antakya, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. READ | Turkey, Syria earthquake deaths top 46,000, rescue efforts may end tonight | 5 points One of the Kyrgyz rescuers said the team also found the bodies of two dead children. During a visit to Antakya, the capital of Hatay province, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the father was conscious and being treated at Mustafa Kemal University Hospital.

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