More survivors rescued from Türkiye quake rubble after 5 days in debris

Teams digging through collapsed buildings to save people as rescue efforts enter 6th day since Monday's massive earthquakes

By Anadolu staff

DIYARBAKIR, KAHRAMANMARAS, GAZIANTEP / Türkiye (AA) – More people were pulled out from the rubble of collapsed buildings on Saturday as rescue squads from around the world race against time to save lives in the aftermath of Monday's powerful earthquakes in southern Türkiye.

Menekse Tabak, a 70-year-old woman, was rescued after she was trapped under the debris for 122 hours in the province of Kahramanmaras, the epicenter of the twin earthquakes that shook southern Türkiye earlier this week.

Masallah Cicek, 55, was rescued in the province of Diyarbakir after she survived under the rubble of a building where she had been trapped for 122 hours.

Rescue teams digged a father and his disabled out of the rubble after they were trapped under the debris for 115 hours in the province of Gaziantep.

Busra Almusa, a 25-year-old woman, was also rescued in Gaziantep 119 hours after the earthquake.

The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, centered in Kahramanmaras, affected more than 13 million people across 10 provinces, also including Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa.

Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, felt the strong tremors that struck Türkiye in the space of fewer than 10 hours.

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