Five days have passed since the first in a series of earthquakes and aftershocks struck cities in Turkey and Syria, yet rescuers are still pulling more survivors out of the rubble.
The first earthquake occurred at 4.17 am local time on Monday, February 6, causing widespread destruction and thousands of deaths.
After 100 hours, rescuers continued to work around the clock, hoping to pull more survivors from the wreckage.
One teenage survivor, who passed out after 94 hours, said he had to drink urine to stay alive. He was pulled alive from the ruins of a building in Gaziantep.
?I drank my own urine to survive. I survived, thank God? He said.
Another survivor, Zeynep Kahraman, 40, was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in the town of Kirikhan on Friday, Feb. 10, 104 hours after he was buried alive by the quake.
German emergency workers lifted her onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.
?Now I believe in miracles,? International search and rescue team leader Steven Beyer said at the site. ?You can see people hugging each other and crying. It is a great relief that this lady has emerged so fit under such conditions. It is an absolute miracle.
In southern Turkey’s Adiyaman province, Iyup Ak, 60, was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building on Friday, 104 hours after being trapped by the earthquake. After he was rescued, Ak was carried on a stretcher for medical treatment.
66-year-old Murat Wural was rescued in Gaziantep Province, Islahiye District, 103 hours after the first earthquake struck. The Turkish National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE) and the police pulled Vural from the wreckage after 10 hours of work.
In Kahramanmaras, a 15-year-old Syrian girl was rescued by Azerbaijani teams after 103 hours.
In Hatay, a three-and-a-half-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble, 103 hours after the initial quake.
UMKE and police teams saved the life of 33-year-old Mustafa Sahin Sami in Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras province 102 hours after the first earthquake. Teams toiled for 12 hours to rescue them from the rubble of the seven-storey building.
Six people were pulled from a collapsed building Friday morning after spending 101 hours under the rubble, rescue workers in Iskenderun, Turkey, said. Six people, all relatives, huddled together in a small pocket left inside the collapsed structure and survived, search and rescue worker Murat Baigul said.
In Hatay province, mine workers from Zonguldak province rescued mother Ihlas Ayaz and her son 101 hours after the first earthquake struck.
In Kahramanmaras province, two sisters, aged 15 and 13, were pulled from the rubble on Friday. The 15-year-old was trapped for 99 hours, her younger sister for 101 hours; Both were given medical treatment.
Naim Bayasli, 32, was rescued by an Uzbekistani rescue team after being trapped for 100 hours under the rubble of a collapsed building in Hatay province.
A family, including a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, was pulled alive from the debris of the collapsed building on Friday. Family members included the child’s mother, father, brother and uncle. After being trapped for 96 hours, he was rescued in Hatays Antakya district.
Fatma Karus (26), a young Syrian woman, was pulled alive from the rubble on Friday by rescue teams in Kahramanmaras, 96 hours after the earthquake.
Early Friday morning, rescuers in Gaziantep pulled a 17-year-old boy from a basement where he had been trapped for 94 hours. ?Thank God you arrived,? He said, hugging his mother and others to kiss and hug him as he was loaded into the ambulance. A crowd of friends and relatives chanted his name, clapped and shed tears of joy. The teenager said he was forced to drink his own urine to quench his thirst.? I could live that way. A rescue worker, identified only as Yasemin, told him: ?I have a son like you? I swear to you, I haven’t slept in four days. I swear I didn’t sleep; I was trying to get you out.?
A 10-day-old baby has been found alive with its mother after 90 hours in Hatay. A five-year-old girl and her father were pulled from the rubble in the 90th hour.
In Kahramanmaras, a seven-year-old boy and his 32-year-old father, Ozan Ramzan Guklu, were found alive 89 hours later.
In Yemen, rescue teams were able to rescue two siblings, aged seven and 14, from the rubble of a six-story building after 88 hours.
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