Turkey quake survivor pulled from rubble after 100 hours
ERCIS, Turkey (AP) - Rescuers, working under floodlights, pulled a 13-year-old boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building early Friday, over 100 hours after a massive earthquake leveled many buildings in eastern Turkey, killing at least 550 people.
A picture by the state-run Anatolia news agency showed a rescue team carrying, Ferhat Tokay, out of the debris, wearing a neck brace. In other pictures from a field hospital, he appeared conscious and looking at his rescuers.
Tokay's rescue came 108 hours after Sunday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake, the agency said.
The agency said the boy was injured but did not give further details. The collapsed building from which Tokay was rescued was in Ecris, the town worst hit by the quake.
The temblor has killed at least 550 people and injured 2,300 others, according to the country's disaster management, AFAD, website updated Thursday evening.
RecommendedRecent Facebook Activity
Only On 7
-
Click here to win an iPad 2 from ABC7!
"Like" ABC7 on facebook and you can win an iPad2! Enter daily before 4pm Friday! Plus, you can receive 2 additional entries for each friend who enters!
TBD Blogs What you need to read
-
@TBD Arts
Strathmore Mansion: Rock, Paper, ZOMBIES
-
The Market Report
Giant promises to open all lanes in Columbia Heights
-
@TBD On Foot
What Gabe Klein is brewing up in Chicago: Pedestrian-safety mannequins
Best of TBD In case you missed it
-
D.C. journalists with the most Klout on Twitter
No one knows quite what Klout is, but these big 'myopic little twits' appear to have it.

No comments
Post a Comment