Turkish rescuers on Saturday pulled three people, including a child, alive from the rubble 13 days after a massive quake claimed tens of thousands of lives, local media reported.
Turkish television channel NTV broadcast images of them placed in stretchers and taken to a waiting ambulance. The channel did not provide any further details.
This photograph taken in Antakya south of Hatay, on February 17, 2023, shows flowers in a vase on a table with rubble in a destroyed restaurant, after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake which struck parts of Turkey and Syria. – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, Turkey, in the early hours of February 6, followed by another 7.5-magnitude tremor just after midday. The quakes caused widespread destruction in southern Turkey and northern Syria and has killed more than 40,000 people. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP)Syrian residents of Hatay city wait to cross the Turkish-Syrian border after they were affected by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the region nearly two weeks ago, at Cilvegozu border gate on February 17, 2023 (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP)This photograph taken on February 17, 2023 in Hatay, shows destroyed buildings, after a 7.8-magnitude struck the border region of Turkey and Syria. – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, Turkey, in the early hours of February 6, followed by another 7.5-magnitude tremor just after midday. The quakes caused widespread destruction in southern Turkey and northern Syria and has killed more than 40,000 people. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP)
