This is the moment two brothers cheerfully wave at the camera after spending 198 hours trapped under the rubble in Turkey’s deadly earthquake.
The pair – named as Muhammed Enes Yeninar, 17, and Baki Yeninar, 21 -were pulled alive from the ruins nine days after the two quakes on 6th February.
Video footage obtained by Newsflash from the General Commandership Of Gendarmerie Of Turkey, on 14th February, shows the two brothers emerging from the crush of concrete.
As they are rolled onto stretchers in Kahramanmaras Province they wave at the rescuers’ cameras.
Some time later, rescuers wrapped 17-year-old Muhammed Enes in a thermal blanket as he was carried on a stretcher to an ambulance, along with his brother.
Their health condition was unclear at the time.
The General Commandership of Gendarmerie said in a statement obtained by Newsflash: “We continue our work without losing hope. All together Turkey!”
Another teen – Muhammed Cafer Cetin – had been playing video games at the time of the quake.
He has been rescued in Adiyaman Province also 198 hours after the quake.
One rescuer – miner Ilyas Gunes- told how his team spoke to the boy’s relatives about the layout of the rooms to discover where survivors might be found.
Gunes said: “We thought maybe they were watching TV in the living room.
“While we were scooping the debris under our feet with an excavator, a hole was opened over there and suddenly we heard a voice saying ‘I’m here’.”
The miner said that Cetin’s first request after being rescued was water and a hot meal and added: “We are very happy right now.
“This has given us wonderful, wonderful happiness here for seven or eight days, and now all our exhaustion has passed.”
United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said that the rescue phase in both Turkey and Syria is coming to an end, with the emphasis now turning more towards recovery.
Meanwhile, WHO regional director of Europe Hans Kluge said: “We are witnessing the worst natural disaster in the WHO European region for a century and we are still learning about its magnitude.”
Reports claimed that more than 36,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands injured in the earthquakes.
