Death toll rises and Turkey evacuates hundreds of thousands of people

Rescuers in Turkey managed to save another four people from the rubble early Friday morning, four days following the initial earthquake on Monday.

​A mother and her son were rescued alive in Diyarbakir, more than 100 hours following the house collapsed. Search and rescue teams reached Sebahat Varli, 32, and her son Serhat, 10.


A few hours earlier, rescue teams managed to get two other people out alive, one in the Kahramanmaras region and the other in Hatay, in the far south of the country.

Rescue teams focusing on a voice emerging from the rubble of a three-story house in Kahramanmaras were able to rescue a 26-year-old Syrian woman. She was brought out alive following removing rubble for 14 hours, before being sent directly to a clinic.

The fourth “miracle” of the morning took place in Hatay, where a 7-year-old girl was found alive by firefighters in a collapsed building.

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