Iran Press/ Asia: Rescue workers in Iskenderun in southern Turkey have pulled six people from a collapsed building after they spent 101 hours beneath the rubble.
The six people, all relatives, survived by huddling together in a small pocket left within the collapsed structure, Murat Baygul, a search and rescue worker, told the Associated Press news agency.
Woman pulled from rubble in Turkey after 104 hours
Also, Al Jazeera reported that rescuers pulled a woman alive out of the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey, prompting cheers from onlookers about 104 hours after she was buried by the huge earthquake that wrought death and destruction across the region.
The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes has passed 21,500. At least 18,342 people have been killed in Turkey, according to the country’s officials — surpassing the toll from the devastating 1999 earthquake in that country.
At least 3,377 people are known to have died in Syria.
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