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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Krisztina Fenyo

'We finally saw her hand': Hungarian rescuer recalls saving girl after Turkey earthquake

FILE PHOTO: A view of the damage as the search for survivors continues, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey February 10, 2023. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

For Viktor Holczer, a Hungarian IT expert, Turkey was the first major rescue mission in which he took part as a volunteer. And he will always remember the moment when he grabbed the hand of 17-year-old Asya, rescued from the rubble almost four days after last week's quake.

As part of the Hungarian team of Caritas Hungary and Budapest Rescue Service, the 26-year-old Holczer said the task of getting to the girl under a collapsed apartment block in the Turkish town of Kahramanmaras seemed almost impossible.

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