UPDATE - Hope still prevails as more survivors emerge from Türkiye quake rubble on 6th day of rescue efforts

UPDATES WITH MORE RESCUES, CHANGES HEADLINE

By Anadolu staff

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

In a rosy rescue, a baby, believed to be 2 months old, was saved alive in the Hatay province after trapped under the debris for 128 hours.

In the Adiyaman province, Specialist Sgt. Osman Gurbuz and his wife Ummu Gurbuz rescued from the rubble after they survived for 128 hours under the concrete blocks of collapsed buildings. Rescue teams also recovered bodies of their three children.

Also in Adiyaman, a young girl named Rumeysa was rescued 128 hours after the earthquake.

Arda Can Ovun, 13, was also rescued in Hatay 128 hours after the first tremor hit the region.

In Kahramanmaras, rescue teams from Azerbaijan pulled out a 50-year-old woman, only known by her first name Fatma, from the debris of a collapsed building 120 hours after the quake hit the area.

Sabiha Gungoren, 74, and her husband were also rescued from the rubble in Hatay on the sixth day since the earthquake.

Rescue teams also pulled out a two-year-old girl, Asya, from the quake debris in Hatay.

Meanwhile, Turkish miners from the Black Sea province of Zonguldak saved 83-year-old Halime Gurbuz in Kahramanmaras after more than 124 hours in the rubble.

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.​​​​​​​