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Turkey deploys 'through the wall radar' to locate survivors

8 February 2023 17:45 GMT

Turkish search and rescue teams are racing against time to save thousands of survivors who are stuck under the rubble in 10 cities across the country since Monday’s quakes.

The teams often have difficulty detecting the people underneath the concrete blocks pancaked on top of each other, and they try to locate the victims often by shouting at them.

Now a Turkish state defence company has started to deploy a special system to find out the whereabouts of the survivors by using something they call DAR (Through the Wall Radar).

STM, the producer of the DAR, usually sends this system to military and other security forces for their operations. But the same system can be used for disasters as part of the emergency response.

Turkish Red Crescent chief Kerem Kinik had warned that the first 72 hours were critical in search and rescue efforts but pointed to complications of "severe weather conditions". The combined death toll both in Turkey and Syria is now well over 12,000.

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A rescue worker holding a table to track the possible movements inside a building through a radar to locate survivors in Antakya, Turkey on 8 February 2023 (Handout)
A rescue worker holding a table to track the possible movements inside a building through a radar to locate survivors in Antakya, Turkey on 8 February 2023 (Handout)