Approximately 90 hours after the first of Monday’s terrible earthquakes, a newborn infant and his mother were recovered from the rubble in Turkey.
The 10-day-old boy named Yagiz was rescued from a collapsed building in the southern province of Hatay.
Local media deemed the overnight removal of the child from the cave as miraculous after capturing the event on film.
Four days after the calamity, hopes of locating a large number of survivors are dwindling due to the extreme cold.
Nonetheless, search and rescue operations continue in both Turkey and neighboring Syria, which was also affected by the earthquakes.
Baby Yagiz was photographed wrapped in a warm blanket and sent to an ambulance for treatment.
His mother was transported to safety on a stretcher. There were no new health updates immediately available for either party.
Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, whose crews were involved in the rescue, tweeted that the rescue occurred in Samandag.
A guy was also seen being rescued from the debris in footage obtained by the Reuters news agency, however, it was unknown if he was related to the other two.
Over 21,000 people, mostly in Turkey, died in Monday morning’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake and its hundreds of aftershocks.
Many people are homeless and without shelter, water, fuel, or electricity, raising concerns of a second calamity.
President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has termed it the “catastrophe of the century.”
Opposition politicians have criticized Mr. Erdogan for neglecting to prepare for the earthquake and have questioned the expenditure of an estimated 88 billion lira ($4.6 billion; £3.8 billion) collected via a “seismic tax.”
The tax, which was implemented for the first time in the wake of a devastating earthquake in 1999 that killed more than 17,000 people, was intended to fund disaster prevention and the expansion of emergency services.
The leader of Turkey’s largest opposition party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, stated on Wednesday that Mr. Erdogan’s administration “had not prepared for an earthquake in 20 years.”
Despite the devastation, miraculous escapes and courageous rescues have emerged in recent days.
Thousands of individuals have offered to adopt a girl born beneath a collapsed building in northwest Syria.
When she was rescued, Aya, whose name means “miracle” in Arabic, was still attached to her mother. Who had perished along with the rest of her family.
