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Rescue teams still find survivors days after deadly earthquakes in Turkey
As search and rescue
efforts are still underway in earthquake-hit Turkey, a 10-day-old infant was
found alive in the southern city of Hatay after 90 hours.
Yagız Ulas was saved
along with his mother.
Among the survivors
in Hatay were also a 5-year-old girl and her father, who were pulled out of the
rubble in the 90th hour of the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey on
Monday.
In Adıyaman, rescue
teams were able to save two siblings aged 7 and 14 from the rubble of a
six-story building after 88 hours.
In Kahramanmaras,
7-year-old Recep Yayha Guclu and his 32-year-old father Ozan Ramazan Guclu were
found alive after 89 hours.
At least 17,674
people were killed and 72,879 others were injured by two powerful earthquakes
that struck southern Turkey earlier this week, according to Turkish
authorities.
The magnitude 7.7 and
7.6 earthquakes, centered in Kahramanmaras province, were felt Monday by more
than 13 million people across 10 provinces, including Adana, Adiyaman,
Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye and Sanliurfa.
Several countries in
the region, including Syria and Lebanon, felt the strong tremors.
Image Credit: © AA
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