Israel's search and rescue team in Marash, southern Turkey, continues to look for survivors after Monday's earthquake decimated the city, bringing down entire neighborhoods.
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Israel Hayom correspondent Avi Cohen, who is in Marash, reported that not only was the city's infrastructure not ready for an earthquake, it seemed the homes were not fit to be lived in at all.
Since Tuesday, rescuers have pulled five survivors from the rubble, including a woman whose leg was trapped and needed to be amputated on-site. Another survivor, a 23-year-old woman, spent almost 48 hours trapped in the ruins.
Major Matan Schneider, who leads the team, described the event, "We were on our way to a destruction site when we were called by the locals who heard noises in the ruins. Thus began a complex rescue of four-and-a-half hours that included a lot of engineering work, in addition to the work of doctors and paramedics. In the end, we pulled out a 23-year-old girl, who came out healthy and intact, albeit with a fractured pelvis. She was evacuated and reunited with her fiancé."
Israel's Magen David Adom emergency services are in contact with Turkey's Red Crescent round the clock. But as many remote areas remain unreachable due to damage to roads, it established – in cooperation with the Red Crescent of Germany, Norway, and Canada – a field hospital for the disaster areas to provide medical and humanitarian aid.
Turkey – and Syria – were hit by a 7.8-magnitude quake, with the death toll having surpassed 15,000. The region sits on top of major fault lines and is frequently shaken by earthquakes.
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