“We were looking for a woman, we know there are a mother and child inside, and when we approached closer, it became obvious that all of this while we were talking to the youngster, not Leyla,” said search and rescue paramedic Jonathan Rousso.
A nine-year-old boy was rescued from a large pile of concrete rubble after five days in yet another heartbreaking tale of a Turkey-Syria earthquake survivor.

According to reports, the rescue was carried out at a single apartment building in Turkey’s Kahramanmaras, the epicenter of the earthquake that has turned nearly half of Syria and Turkey into wastelands.

More than 200 buildings have been destroyed by the earthquakes and tremors just in Kahramanmaras.
Sky News says that a multi-national rescue team initially looked for a woman named Leyla deep beneath the pile because they had only heard her voice from a tunnel’s narrow corridor.

She responded, but her voice was low.

Under the direction of members of Israel’s national search and rescue squad, the rescuers had been attempting to reach her from both the side and the top of the building for the previous 24 hours.

The woman’s husband and daughter had already been released, but according to reports, Leyla was in a terrible situation.

They were both asleep in the boy’s room when the earthquake struck, and it turned out that her nine-year-old son was also trapped under the rubble.

According to Jonathan Rousso, a paramedic with search and rescue, “We were looking for a woman, we know there are a mother and child inside, and when we approached closer, it became obvious that all of this while we were talking to the youngster, not Leyla.”

The rescuers eventually reached a wall on the other side, where Leyla and her son were.
However, a washing machine in the way prevented them from cutting the wall.

Members of the rescue team were successful in reaching the boy over the course of an agonizing evening.

He informed them that he was Ridvan, the nine-year-old son of Leyla.

Despite the doctor’s best efforts to stabilize him downstairs, there were serious concerns about his condition. It was decided to get rid of him.

The volunteers requested outside silence in order not to frighten the child. On a stretcher, Ridvan was then taken through a concrete hole.

He was greeted by whispers from the crowd, which had grown to several hundred.

He had been underground for nearly five days, holding his mother. He was extremely cold, dehydrated, and had a portion of his body crushed. He was swiftly transported to the hospital by paramedics.

His mother, Leyla, tragically passed away as a result of the rescue team’s inability to reach her in time.

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced as a result of the disaster, and many of them are currently sleeping in self-constructed homes or plastic tents on the sides of highways.