Huseyin Berber, a 62-year-old diabetic, survived 187 hours under the rubble after the walls of his Turkey home were propped up by a fridge and a cabinet, leaving him an armchair to sit in and a rug to keep him warm
He said he had been surrounded by relatives in different rooms in his apartment, all of whom he believes managed to survive.
"I shouted, shouted and shouted. No one was hearing me. I shouted so much that my throat hurt. Our son, I think took out the kids... we were five people, my son and I were in the bedroom.""An hour later, I took and drank it. Apologies, I peed in it and let it rest. I drank it when it got cold. I saved myself with that."A member of the Turkish medical rescue team said people under the rubble can generally survive up to five days.
Mohana Amirtharajah, a surgery adviser with Medecins Sans Frontieres, said dehydration happens faster in children."But there are definitely case reports of people who survive in that way. But what you will find over time is you become more and more dehydrated, is that your urine becomes more and more concentrated. So the actual water content of your urine will go down."
"Someone reached their hand out and it met with my hand. They pulled me out from there. The hole I got out from was very small. That scared me a bit.
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