MIRACLE RESCUE: A woman was pulled from the rubble alive in Turkey, more than 10 days after a devastating earthquake hit the region killing over 41,000 people.
The death toll is certain to increase further as search teams retrieve more bodies amid the devastation.MORE SURVIVORS RESCUED
More than 10 days after the powerful earthquake struck, rescuers overnight pulled out a child, a woman and two men alive from wreckage.Neslihan Kilic, a 29-year-old mother of two, was removed from the rubble of a building in Kahramanmaras, after being trapped for 258 hours when a forklift operator lifted her bed and noticed her hand move, the private DHA news agency reported late Thursday.
Her father, Cuma Yalcinoz, had been waiting outside the building. “I believed she would come out,” he said. “I had a feeling.” Kilic’s husband and children were still missing. In the city of Antakya, police rescue crews found 12-year-old Osman alive after retrieving 17 bodies from a collapsed building.
“Just when our hopes were over, we reached our brother Osman at the 260th hour,” police rescue team leader Okan Tosun told DHA.One of them, Mustafa Avci, used the mobile phone of a rescuer to call his brother and ask about family members.
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