Malaysian team saves family of five


Team effort: MAS-01 SMART personnel are among the rescue workers pulling a survivor out from the rubble in Nurdagi. — Photo from Twitter account of Turkiye’s IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation

GAZIANTEP (Turkiye): The MAS-01 SMART team managed to rescue five earthquake victims trapped in the ruins of a six-storey residential building in Nurdagi here.

Its commander, Mohd Khairul Jamil said the victims pulled from the rubble of the collapsed building at 2.20pm local time (7.20pm Malaysian time) yesterday were two women, an adult man and two teenagers – a girl and a boy.

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