The Story Of A Mother And A 6 Year Old Daughter Stuck For 70 Hours In Turkey's Collapsed Building Under Freezing Temperature

Photo via @at_fire

JAKARTA - A mother and her 6-year-old child have finally been rescued after 70 hours trapped in a collapsed building after the Turkish earthquake.

A mother and her six-year-old daughter were rescued alive from a collapsed house in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş Thursday 9 February. Exactly 68 hours after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria last Monday.

German aid organization @fire, which works with British aid organization SARAID, said the mother and child were found in the rubble of a collapsed building around 5 a.m. local time on Wednesday.

“For nearly 20 hours, relief workers made their way through the rubble. Using heavy machinery and manual labor, the task was to tunnel through the rubble to save the mother and child," the statement said.

The rescue mission is a race against time. Moreover, both of them are in danger of freezing to death in sub-zero temperatures.

A mother and her six-year-old daughter were rescued alive overnight from a collapsed house in #Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. The urban search and rescue teams of @at_fire and @team_saraid worked tirelessly for almost 20 hours on the difficult rescue. #earthquaketurkey @Insarag pic.twitter.com/LsU9MA3wMX

— @fire - Internationaler Katastrophenschutz (@at_fire) February 9, 2023

Another relieving story is when a family of three, including two brothers and their mother, were rescued alive 78 hours after the earthquake.

Live images from Kanal D, which is owned by CNN partner network CNN Turk, show rescue workers running toward the rubble to save a child in Pazarcik, Kahramanmaras.

Minutes later, rescuers were seen carrying a boy in a large blanket.

The mother of the two boys, 36-year-old Hatice İğde, was rescued after the boys were pulled from the rubble. The boys' names are Mehmet Naim İğde and Melih Igde, according to Kanal D.