10-year-old saved from Antakya rubble after 90 hours

A 10-year-old girl was on Thursday rescued in Antakya district of Hatay province, in the 90th hour since the earthquake. DHA news agency said after making contact, rescuers worked 32 hours at the site to clear a passage.

The agency said medics had to amputate an arm to free her from the rubble because removing the block that was crushing her would have endangered her further. An hour before that, rescuers pulled out a 17-year-old girl in Adiyaman province.

Miners and others brought her out of the rubble and medics took her to an ambulance on a stretcher with an IV bag hanging. Also, a 20-year-old was rescued in Kahramanmaras, in the 88th hour since the quake, by IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation rescuers. These were three of the many rescue efforts that played out since Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake and its forceful aftershocks.