Turkey quake: Man, his daughter & a woman rescued after over 72 hours

Two people have been pulled alive from the rubble of the earthquake in southeastern Turkey more than 72 hours after the quake struck.

Search and rescue teams saved an injured woman from under the rubble in Diyarbakir on Thursday and carried her to an ambulance nearby.

Private news agency DHA reported that three people that were next to her in the rubble were found dead and were recovered after the woman was pulled out.

In the same hour, a girl was pulled out alive from under rubble in Antakya. News agency IHA reported that her father was alive as well, and rescue teams were trying to pull him out.

Soner Guner, the father of Hazal Guner, was rescued two hours after his daughter from the same rubble in Antakya.

Guner was pulled out at the 74th hour after the devastating quake that hit the city and killed 12,873 in southern Turkey.

These were two of the many rescue efforts that played out after Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake and its forceful aftershocks.

A frantic race is underway to find more survivors and help the injured as the death toll passed 15,000 in Turkey and Syria.

The toll is likely to climb further as freezing weather and multiple aftershocks are hampering the rescue efforts, despite international assistance.

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