Nilai Fansa and Cengiz, a couple who were buried for 14 hours under the rubble of a house in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, thought Birce’s eight-month-old daughter was dead when she was already in the hospital receiving treatment.
The couple, in addition to the baby, had two more daughters, Neil, four years old, who survived the earthquake, as well as Alina, two years old, who did not resist and the body was found in the rubble, the American television station reports. CNN.
Five days after the earthquake, the couple had already given up hope of finding the eight-month-old girl alive. However, little Bierce was saved by a neighbor who followed what he thought was the sound of a cat in the rubble, but who turned out to be a child.
Beers spent five days in intensive care at a hospital in Adana. with a broken leg, fractured skull and brain hemorrhage. None of those who pulled her out of the rubble recognized her, so several netizens shared photos of the baby on social media in hopes of finding a family.
The couple learned that the child was still alive when Nilaya’s sister alerted a neighbor that they were still looking for Birche, and he reported that he saw a child, whom no one knew, who had to be rescued from the rubble, in the area, a few minutes after the accident earthquake.
It was through the transfers of Internet users on social networks that Nilai and Chengiz identified their daughter and were able to find her.
This was reported by the mother of Birs Nilai. CNN that during the earthquake “a child climbed out of a fifth-floor window” and that this helped her survive because the place where Bierce’s bed was was “completely covered in cement.” “Of course, I am devastated by the death of my other daughter, but Bierce is on the mend and, God willing, she will be released from the hospital soon,” she added.
Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have killed more than 40,000 people.