Tue 03 November 2020:
A four-year-old girl has been pulled out of the rubble alive days after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Turkey’s Aegean region.
Ayla Gezgin was rescued on Tuesday in the Bayrakli district of the Aegean Izmir province 91 hours after the quake.
Ayla, the 107th survivor to be rescued, was taken to hospital.
On Twitter, Mehmet Gulluoglu, the head of Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), expressed happiness at the little girl’s rescue.
Speaking to reporters following Ayla’s rescue, a rescue team member, Nusret Aksoy, said he spotted the struggling young girl waving her hand.
4-year-old girl rescued 91 hours after earthquake in Turkey
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Recent situation in quake hit-Izmir
The death toll from last week’s powerful earthquake in Turkey’s Aegean region has risen to 102, authorities have said.
According to the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) statement on Tuesday, 147 victims are still under treatment, while 847 more have been discharged from hospitals.
A total of 1,464 aftershocks – 44 of them with a magnitude higher than 4.0 – have been recorded since last Friday’s 6.6-magnitude quake rattled Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city that is home to more than 4.3 million, the agency said.
Two teenagers also died on the Greek island of Samos, Greek authorities had said earlier.
At least 994 people had been injured in Izmir, the disaster agency said.
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