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Chinese rescue teams race to offer help in quake-hit Türkiye

2023-02-10 10:32:00       source:CGTN

February 9, 2023


In the southern Turkish city of Antakya, a pregnant woman buried under the rubble of a collapsed building was pulled out to safety by Chinese and local rescue teams on Thursday, three days after the catastrophic magnitude-7.7 earthquake and its aftershocks struck the country and northern Syria.


Across a swathe of southern Türkiye, people sought temporary shelter and food in freezing winter weather and waited in anguish by piles of rubble where family and friends might still lie buried. The death toll in Türkiye has risen to 14,351.


The Chinese rescue team, consisting of 82 members including specialists in search and rescue as well as medical treatment, rushed to one of the worst-hit regions in Türkiye as soon as they landed at the Adana international airport on Wednesday. 


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