Watch: woman rescued from underneath rubble after 222 hours in quake-hit Turkey

Turkish media showed a 42-year-old woman has been rescued 222 hours after being buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed in a devastating earthquake in Kahramanmaras, the province of the epicenter.

Rescue teams from western Turkey had identified signs of life and rescued Melike Imamoglu.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Tuesday that more than 35,000 people have died in Turkey as a result of last week’s earthquake, making it the deadliest such disaster since the country’s founding 100 years ago.

While the death toll is almost certain to rise even further, many survivors left homeless were still struggling to meet basic needs, like finding shelter from the bitter cold.

The Turkish president, who has referred to the quake as “the disaster of the century,” said more than 13,000 people were still being treated in hospital.

Many in Turkey have blamed faulty construction for the vast devastation, and authorities continued targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed. Turkey has introduced construction codes that meet earthquake-engineering standards, but experts say the codes are rarely enforced.

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