According to the heart-wrenching footage, the rescue workers gave a little boy water with a bottle cap before pulling him out of wreckage nearly 45 hours after the Turkey-Syria ᴇᴀʀᴛʜǫᴜᴀᴋᴇ.
The Syria young child named Muhammed Ahmed had been trapped underneath rubble following the 7.8 magnitude ǫᴜᴀᴋᴇ since the early hours of Monday.
The clip was shared on Twitter by Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
“Well done Muhammed. Our search and rescue team rescued Syrian citizen Muhammed Ahmed from the rubble in Antakya,” he said.
It can be seen from the video that the dehydrated little boy was drinking water out of the bottle cap, carefully given to him by a rescue worker, as he was trapped underneath rubble from the neck down and unable to use his arms.
He can be heard crying in between sips as he signals for more water.
Aferin Muhammed.
Suriye vatandaşı Muhammed Ahmed’i de arama kurtarma ekibimiz Antakya’da enkaz altıdan sağ bir şekilde kurtardı. pic.twitter.com/lSxwSqyex0
— Ekrem İmamoğlu (@ekrem_imamoglu) February 7, 2023
