Girl, 3, rescued from rubble, 65 hours after Turkey earthquake
- Rescue came three days after strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece
- More than a thousand people were injured, many more need shelter
Rescue efforts were continuing in eight buildings in Izmir where 83 people were killed, making Friday’s earthquake the deadliest in Turkey for nearly a decade. Two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos, authorities said.
Television footage showed the girl, Elif Perincek, being pulled from the rubble and carried by rescuers on a stretcher to an ambulance, 65 hours after the earthquake struck.
Elif’s two sisters and brother were rescued along with their mother on Saturday, but one of the children subsequently died.
“A thousand thanks to you, my God. We have brought out our little one Elif from the apartment block,” Mehmet Gulluoglu, head of Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), wrote on Twitter.
Seven hours earlier, rescuers clapped in unison as 14-year-old Idil Sirin was removed from the rubble, after being trapped for some 58 hours. Her eight-year-old sister, Ipek, did not survive, NTV television reported.