Rescues in Hatay, 261 hours after quake

More than 10 days after a powerful earthquake struck Türkiye and Syria, rescuers have overnight pulled out a child, a woman and two men alive from wreckage. Survivor Mustafa Avci being rescued from under the rubble in the Turkish city of Hatay after 261 hours.

A 29-year-old mother was also rescued from the rubble in Kahramanmaras, after being trapped for 258 hours. In the city of Antakaya, rescue crews found a 12-year-old child alive after retrieving 17 bodies from a collapsed building, 260 hours after the quake. The Turkish disaster management agency has updated the death toll in Türkiye to 38,044, raising the overall number of fatalities in both Türkiye and Syria to 41,732.