The partner of footballer Christian Atsu, who has been missing since the earthquake in Turkey on Monday, has called for equipment to be sent to the collapsed building where he was living.
It was reported Atsu, who plays for Turkish club Hatayspor, was rescued from a building “with injuries”.
But a day later his agent confirmed his whereabouts are unknown.
“I still pray, and believe that he is alive,” Claire Rupio, who lives in Newcastle, UK, told BBC News.
Rupio says conflicting reports about his whereabouts have been “confusing” and “quite shocking”, revealing their children heard on the radio that he was still missing.
She said: “I appeal for the Hatayspor club, the Turkish authorities, and the British government, to send out the equipment to get people out of the rubble – especially my partner and father of my children.
“They need the equipment to get them out – they can’t get that deep without the equipment. And time is running out.”
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