Former Ghanaian and Chelsea player Christian Atsu has still not been found after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck turkey and Syria leading to the death of about 20,000 people with 1,000s injured.
After the incident, the authorities contacted the rescue team and they have been working tirelessly freeing people trapped under the rubble, first it was gathered that, Christian Atsu had been found and rescued but later communicated that it was a missed identity and the player has still not been found.
9 days on since the sudden occurrence and the Information that came was that, people who were in Atsu’s building dead or alive cannot be freed due to state of the site, in a new statement, the manger of Christian Atsu confirmed that, they have been able to locate the exact room of Atsu and his shoes but he is still missing.
Read the statement below;
"I am at the quake site in Hatay with Christian's family. The scenes are unimaginable and our hearts are broken for all the people affected," he said.
"During my time here we have been able to locate
Christian Atsu's exact room location, and we have found two pairs of his shoes.
" According to the player's agent, "we received
confirmation that thermal imagery was showing signs of up to 5 lives, however, I am told that the only real confirmation of life is through sight, smell and sound, and unfortunately we were not able to locate Christian."
He further called on Atsu's club to come to their aid by providing additional resources to help in the search.
"Things are moving incredibly slow and as a result of that many rescues are being delayed, and lives are being lost due to the lack of resources available to the workers.
"It is unfortunate that the club is not on the ground with us, side by side, in the search for Christian. Their position and influence, accompanied with their local knowledge
would be extremely helpful.
"We implore the President of the club and mayor of Hatay,
Lütfü Savas to provide additional resources to speed up
the rescue efforts as a priority" the statement added.
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