PRISTINA, Feb  13 /ATA/- Kosovo’s Minister of Defense, Armend Mehaj, said that after more than 162 hours from the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey, in the province of Hatay, the search-rescue contingent of KSF, has rescued two more lives, including a 13 year old girl.

“We hope that in the coming hours our members of the KSF will pull more survivors trapped in the rubble of this catastrophic earthquake,” Mehaj says in a post on social media.

According to KSF, the result came after an arduous and very challenging work with high risk and maximum commitment.”

“Invincible and unstoppable, the young men and women of the Kosovo army, alongside the teams of the Turkish army, rescued after 160 hours under the rubble of the massive earthquake, a male citizen around the age of 50, and after 162 hours a 13-year-old girl,” according to KSF.

Although the KSF Search and Rescue teams have spent long hours toiling in the rubble,  they are motivated and putting all their energy on the efforts to rescue survivors trapped under the rubble caused by the catastrophic earthquake.”

Members of the KSF on February 8 pulled from the rubble in Hatay, Turkey,  a 2-year-old toddler and her mother.

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