Turkey earthquakes: 12 days on, 2 more people rescued; death toll over 43,000

A couple and their son were extracted from under an apartment building in the Turkish city of Antakya more than 12 days on from a powerful earthquake. The child later died.

The three were transferred to ambulances after spending 296 hours buried under the Kanatli apartment block in the centre of the city, Turkish TV reported.

Footage showed medics fixing an IV drip to the man’s arm as he lay on a stretcher.

The state-run Anadolu news agency identified them as Samir Muhammed Accar, 49, his wife Ragda, 40, and their 12-year-old son, who died in hospital.

The bodies of two other children were also found in the rubble, reports said, quoting a member of a Kyrgyz rescue team.

Search and rescue teams have continued to save more people from the ruins of the February 6 earthquake that devastated swaths of Turkey and Syria even as the window for finding people alive continues to shrink.

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Hatay is one of the worst hit of the 11 provinces in the Turkish disaster zone.

As of Friday evening, Turkey's death toll was 39,672, taking the number of recorded fatalities across both countries to 43,360.