Published February 14,2023
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A quake sufferer, who was delivered to the Bodrum district of Türkiye‘s southwestern Muğla province, gave delivery to a child woman on Tuesday.
Işıl Özdemir, 22, was positioned in a resort underneath the coordination of the Turkish catastrophe administration company AFAD. Özdemir, who was 39-week pregnant, gave delivery to her child named “Defne” in Bodrum State Hospital.
Özdemir and her family got here to Bodrum from the quake-hit Hatay province. Özdemir’s husband was nonetheless within the Antakta district of Hatay.
“I am both scared and very happy. I held my baby in my arms in good health, but my husband stayed in Hatay,” the mom mentioned.
She mentioned they skilled nice panic through the earthquakes and had been terrified for his or her infants.
“It was raining during the earthquakes. We managed to get out of the building and stayed in a car for 3-4 days,” she added.
She famous that they noticed different buildings collapse in entrance of their eyes and other people had been underneath the rubble.
At least 31,974 folks had been killed by two sturdy earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, the nation’s catastrophe company mentioned on Tuesday.
Magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes, centered within the Kahramanmaraş province, affected greater than 13 million folks throughout 10 provinces, together with Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye and Şanlıurfa.
Several international locations within the area, together with Syria and Lebanon, additionally felt the sturdy tremors that struck Türkiye within the house of fewer than 10 hours.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
