Two teenagers have been rescued after spending 198 hours trapped under rubble following earthquakes in Turkey.
Footage shows rescue workers pulling Muhammed Cafer, 18, and 17-year-old Muhammed Yeninar from the rubble of separate buildings on Tuesday.
It came as another quake survivor was rescued on Monday night after 183 hours trapped under rubble.
Huseyin Berber was stretchered from the wreckage of his home which was brought down more than seven days ago in Antakya, southern Turkey.
Turkey and Syria Earthquake | February 2023
Emergency workers are continuing to search for survivors of the two quakes which devastated the countries last week.
The UN warned on Monday that the rescue phase of its operations in Syria and Turkey was “coming to a close” as, a week on from the disaster, the chance of finding survivors is very small.
The quake is now the sixth most deadly natural disaster this century, behind the 2005 tremor that killed at least 79,000 in Pakistan. The official death toll is over 37,000.
More than 8,000 people have been pulled out alive from rubble in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, expressing his gratitude to all countries that came forward to provide support after the twin deadly earthquakes.
He also said a large number of over 81,000 people injured in the earthquakes have been discharged from hospitals, state-run Anadolu agency reported.
“I would like to thank once again to all the friendly and sisterly countries that have been collecting aid for our nation day and night, supporting our search and rescue efforts with their teams, and not forgetting us in their prayers,” Erdogan added.
Turkey will never forget “the friendship you showed on this dark day,” he said.
In Pazarcik, a remote town of 30,000 above the epicentre of the initial 7.8 magnitude quake, 80 per cent of buildings were destroyed or damaged.
