The lady died in hospital the day after her rescue. (File)

Kirikhan, Turkey:

A girl died in hospital on Saturday a day after she was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed constructing in southern Turkey, the place she had been trapped for 104 hours since Monday’s devastating earthquake, rescuers mentioned.

German rescuers pulled 40-year-old Zeynep Kahraman out of the rubble within the city of Kirikhan in southern Turkey on Friday. They hailed her survival a “miracle” as search and rescue efforts within the aftermath of the area’s deadliest quake in a long time stored turning up extra our bodies.

“We’ve simply realized from the brother and sister that Zeynep sadly handed away within the hospital,” mentioned Steven Bayer, the chief of German Worldwide Search and Rescue group. “We’ve simply knowledgeable the group that she has sadly handed away and at the moment are processing this within the group.”

As some rescuers, choking again tears, comforted one another, the group physician mentioned the dangers had been significantly excessive throughout the first 48 hours after such difficult rescue operation.

“In any case, she was actually buried for over 100 hours. Not trapped, however buried,” Peter Kaub mentioned.

However he burdened the rescuers’ effort was not in useless.

“To have the ability to die within the arms of 1’s household and to have the ability to dwell the final moments earlier than that, each second counts,” he mentioned. “After 10 hours, after we began, she had first human contact and will speak to the translator and to us, then even to her household. And in the long run, her household was capable of maintain her of their arms.”

Kahraman’s household informed Reuters earlier that rescuers had arrived two days after Monday’s quake.

The German employees made contact with the lady whereas she was nonetheless deep contained in the rubble and stored her hydrated by a hose. At one level they helped her sister climb down a ladder near Zeynep’s place to talk to her.

The mixed demise depend from Monday’s quake in southern Turkey and northern Syria now exceeded 24,000.

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