The Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), which was dispatched to Turkiye (Turkey) to help victims of the devastating earthquake there, on the evening of Feb. 11 rescued a woman and her teenage son.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul said the KDRT, which is performing its search-and-rescue mission in Antakya, the capital of the country's Hatay province, on the same day rescued a person at 7:18 p.m. and another at 8:18 p.m. 1.2 km northeast of the team's camp.
The two were a middle-aged woman, 51, and her teen son, 17, who were pulled from the same building.
Considering that the first quake hit on Feb. 6 hit at 4:17 a.m., the pair was rescued far later than the critical rescue period of the first 72 hours.
When they were rescued, the teen was unconscious but his mother was in good health and both were taken to a hospital together. Thus the KDRT raised the number of people it saved to eight.
Dispatched from Korea to the quake-ravaged country to help victims, the team on Feb. 9, the first day of its mission, rescued five people including a two-year-old child as well as an elderly woman, 65, two days later at 2:04 p.m.
Video = official YouTube channel of ROK National Fire Agency
By Aisylu Akhmetzianova
aisylu@korea.kr