Urban Search and Rescue specialists from Australia have touched down to assist Turkish authorities in the wake of last week's devastating earthquake. The 72-strong team includes volunteers from NSW Ambulance and NSW Fire and Rescue. 9News MORE:
on Saturday pulled to safety a family of five who survived inside their collapsed home for five days following the major earthquake in a sprawling border region of Turkey and Syria.
Members of the mixed Turkish and Kyrgyz search teams embraced each other, as did the teenager's cousins, with one of them calling out: "He is out, brother. He is out. He is here."Turkish rescue workers carry Kamil Can Agdas to an ambulance after pulled him out from a collapsed building five days after the earthquake, in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, early Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023.
Turkish rescue workers carry Ergin Guzeloglan, 36, to an ambulance after pulled him out from a collapsed building five days after an earthquake in Hatay, southern Turkey, early Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people, some almost unscathed, from the rubble, four days after a catastrophic earthquake.
As aid continued to arrive, a 99-member group from the Indian Army's medical assistance team began treating the injured in a temporary field hospital in the southern city of Iskenderun, where a main hospital was demolished. Hospitals in Antakya, he said, were overburdened, and he had come to the Indian field hospital in Iskenderun to finally address his injuries.
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