'Two Miracles': Couple Rescued 203 Hours After Deadly Earthquake Hit, Officials Say
A couple was pulled alive from beneath the rubble in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, on Tuesday, February 14, 203 hours after deadly earthquakes impacted the country, officials said.
Footage released by Kocaeli Metropolitan shows rescuers searching through the rubble under a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras.
“Two miracles occured in the 203rd hour", the Municipality tweeted. "Hidayet and Muharrem Polat couple were rescued alive from the wreckage of the seven-storey Aktas Apartment, which was destroyed by the earthquake in Kahramanmaras”, the caption read, according to a machine translation.
According to Turkish news outlet NTV, the couple lost two of their children “under the rubble,” while their third child, a six-month old baby, died in their arms after five days under the debris.
By Wednesday, state-run Anadolu Agency reported a death toll over 35,410 in Turkey, and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Syria’s death toll had risen to 5,540. Credit: Kocaeli Metropolitan via Storyful
