SINGAPORE: Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers rescued a boy from a collapsed building in Türkiye, following a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 15,000 people in the country as well as in Syria. The
SINGAPORE: Singapore Civil Defence Force officers rescued a boy from a collapsed building in Türkiye, following a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 15,000 people in the country as well as in Syria.landed in Adana on Wednesday and headed to Dulkadiroğlu, Kahramanmaraş to begin search and rescue operations.
Working together with a local rescue team and another from Spain, they rescued the boy from a collapsed three-storey building amid temperatures of about 2 degrees Celsius. “The Spanish rescue team used their search canine to pinpoint the location of the boy and SCDF used a fibre-optic scope to confirm the visuals of the boy,” SCDF said of the three-hour rescue operation in a Facebook post on Thursday.
"All three rescue teams used their cutting and breaking equipment to create an access through the rubble to reach the boy." [Update 3: Boy Rescued from a Collapsed Building in Dulkadiroğlu] The advance team of 20 SCDF officers from the...
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