rescue teams are continuing to search
for around a hundred people missing
since friday's earthquake which struck
just off
turkey's eastern coast causing
widespread damage in the city of izmir
at least 69 people were killed and
thousands have been made homeless
in izmir survivors have been pulled out
of the rubble of collapsed buildings
including a 70 year old from there our
international correspondent oligarin
reports
they have been praying here for miracle
rescues
overnight they got one a
seventy-year-old man
called ahmed chittim who had been buried
for
33 hours carried out alive
he was reclaimed from this the wreckage
of an eight-story apartment block
called the rizza bay now all but erased
from the landscape
a local official told us residents were
worried and
asked for an inspection over a year ago
it concluded the building wouldn't
survive an earthquake
well the search is continuing here hour
after hour
the rubble is several stories high
and standing here seeing all of this
crushed
concrete it's hard to imagine that
anyone else could be brought out alive
but the teams are still searching by
hand with heavy equipment
and with dogs and nearby relatives are
keeping an
anguished vigil many haven't left the
site since the moment of the earthquake
at 2 51 pm on friday afternoon
may i ask you for your family our deal
tanner
is one of them waiting for news of his
beloved sister
asla worked in a dental office on the
ground floor of the building
my sister's university friend and
another friend every time called me
every time from the writing in
instead on instagram on phone
every time writing called me every
people call me
we are just waiting i have a hope
i need to pray every people need a break
because we have a just chance
nearby we met rahima she hasn't lost any
loved ones
but is ensure she can bear to stay in
the neighborhood
now opposite me there'll be a building
that isn't there
she said and people who aren't there
tonight rescue teams are still grappling
with the rubble
and turkey is suffering a collective
aftershock
across this earthquake-prone country
many now asking
could we be next orla giron bbc news
izmir