Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Woman, Newborn Saved After Four Days In Rubble

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A woman and her 10-day-old baby boy were rescued from the rubble of a ruined structure in the southern Hatay province in Turkey, four days after the first of Monday’s deadly earthquakes.

The newborn baby boy, Yagiz, was pictured wrapped in a thermal blanket and being carried to an ambulance to receive treatment. His mother was brought out on a stretcher. There were no further updates immediately available on the health of both.

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – whose teams were reportedly involved in the rescue – tweeted about the rescue, saying it happened in the town of Samandag.

Turkish President Recap Tayyip Erdogan has described it as the “disaster of the century”, while Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, said on Wednesday that Mr Erdogan’s government “has not prepared for an earthquake for 20 years”.

More than 21,000 people have died – most of them in Turkey – after Monday morning’s initial 7.8-magnitude tremor and the hundreds of aftershocks that followed. Despite the devastation, stories of remarkable escapes or heroic rescues have been emerging over the past few days.

Hopes of finding many more survivors are diminishing, amid freezing-cold weather four days after the disaster. However, search and rescue efforts continue in both Turkey and neighbouring Syria – which was struck by the quakes as well.

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