A dog and her three newborn puppies were pulled from the rubble of Turkey’s earthquake a month after the devastating tragedy.
The four dogs emerged from the rubble of a building in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, 28 days after earthquakes devastated the region.
Kadir Keyifli, the owner of two-and-a-half-year-old Doberman Sila, said he had asked local rescue teams for help getting his dog out of the rubble but nobody had been able to enter the wreckage.
Meyako, a regional animal rescue team, came to his aid on Monday. After hours of work, they managed to reach the basement where Sila was trapped – and saw that she had not only survived for nearly a month but also gave birth to three puppies.
At the scene of the rescue, one of the dogs’ saviours asked: ‘What did you drink here? What did you eat? Did you give birth to three of them?’
Doberman Sila (pictured with her rescuers) and her three newborn puppies were pulled from the rubble of Turkey’s earthquake a month after the devastating tragedy
Sila was trapped and not only survived for nearly a month but also gave birth to three puppies (pictured)
The workers were seen going through a narrow opening among the rubble then breaking open a hole in a door to access the room in the basement, which appeared to have sustained little damage
A dog and three newborn pups rescued a month after Hatay quake
The workers were seen going through a narrow opening among the rubble then breaking open a hole in a door to access the room in the basement, which appeared to have sustained little damage.
In a video shared by Meyako, Keyifli said: ‘My dogs are coming out after one month.
‘Thank God.’
He said Sila survived and gave birth thanks to a large bag of dog food that was left in the basement.
Sila and her pups were taken to the nearby city of Adana for treatment.
In a video shared by Meyako, Keyifli said: ‘My dogs are coming out after one month. Thank God.’
Kadir Keyifli, the owner of two-and-a-half-year-old Doberman Sila, said he had asked local rescue teams for help getting his dog out of the rubble but nobody had been able to enter the wreckage
Rescuers noted that although the mother dog looked skinny, she was walking unaided
He said Sila survived and gave birth thanks to a large bag of dog food that was left in the basement
Sila and her pups were taken to the nearby city of Adana for treatment. The death toll in Turkey and Syria from last month’s earthquakes have neared 52,000
Rescuers noted that although the mother dog looked skinny, she was walking unaided.
The death toll in Turkey and Syria from last month’s earthquakes have neared 52,000.
Close to 10,000 aftershocks have hit the region affected by the quake since February 6. That deadly quake – and the aftershocks that have followed – will have a deep psychological impact on locals, experts and officials say.
Turkish police have arrested 184 people suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings in the catastrophic February 6 earthquake that killed 48,000 people.
Investigations into who is responsible for the collapsed buildings are widening, a minister said on Saturday, as anger simmers over what many see as corrupt building practices.