Two brothers were among at least seven people miraculously rescued from quake rubble in Turkey on Tuesday — nearly 200 hours after massive tremors rocked the region, killing more than 37,000 people.
One of the siblings survived by drinking protein powder, while another survivor said he was playing video games when his building came down.
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Hopeful rescue workers added that they can still hear the voices of other survivors stuck under collapsed buildings eight days after the disaster devastated Turkey and Syria.
Workers heard siblings Muhammed Enes Yeninar, 17, and Baki Yeninar, 21, from the ruins of an apartment building in Kahramanmaras — where the quakes were centered — and dug them out, according to the Andalou news agency.
Baki told rescuers that he survived by drinking nearby protein powder.
The brothers were among at least a half-dozen survivors pulled from the apartment block in Kahramanmaras province Tuesday.
Rescue workers pull out Muhammed Enes Yeninar from the debris of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.AP
The Yeninar brothers were among 12 people rescued from the apartment block.Ismail Coskun/Ihlas News Agency (IHA) via REUTERS
Footage shared by Turkey’s Gendarmerie General Command showed rescuers scouring through what was left in Kahramanmaras, the Turkish city closest to the epicenter of the magnitude-7.8 earthquake.
Cetin told rescuers he had been playing video games when his building collapsed.
“While we were scooping the debris under out feet with an excavator, a hole opened over there, and suddenly, we heard a voice saying, ‘I’m here,’ ” recalled worker Miner Ilyas Gunes, noting that he and other rescuers were thinking about the layout of homes while searching for survivors.
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After Cetin was rescued, he asked for a hot meal and water, Gunes said.