Rescuers in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building on Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece.
The girl was seen being taken into an ambulance, wrapped in a thermal blanket, amid the sounds of applause and chants of “God is great!” from rescue workers and onlookers.
Media reports identified her as 4-year-old Ayla Gezgin. She had been trapped inside the rubble for 91 hours since Friday’s quake struck in the Aegean Sea.
En güzel mucizeler sabırla çiçek açar hoşgeldin dünyalar tatlısı aydam. Hep gülümse hayat hep sana o güzel yüzün gibi güzelliklerle karşilaş. Ve hiç üzülme sen umudun diğer adısin aydam..😭😭 pic.twitter.com/zRIOqxSBjy
— belki bir gün (@Umut0084) November 3, 2020
Ayda Gezgin. 3 yaşında. Ve 91 saat sonra tekrar aramızda! pic.twitter.com/SCDCsEZ6YS
— Dr. Fahrettin Koca (@drfahrettinkoca) November 3, 2020
The name of the miracle in Turkey: Ayda pic.twitter.com/dtPq0rW14J
— Kübra Sabancı (@kubrasabancii) November 3, 2020
Rescuer Nusret Aksoy told reporters that he heard a child scream before locating the girl next to a dishwasher. He said Ayla waved at him, told him her name and said that she was okay.
Her rescue came a day after a 3-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl were also pulled out alive from collapsed buildings in Izmir.
Seni, kardeşlerin Elzem ve Ezel'i; İdil'i, İnci'yi ve daha birçok evladımızı bizlere bağışlayan Allah'a şükürler olsun.
Geçmiş olsun canım yavrum… https://t.co/cQSdZp6T8G
— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RTErdogan) November 2, 2020
HAYAT BİR KEZ DAHA KAZANDI.
İdil kızımızın ardından, 65 saat sonra aramıza dönen 3 yaşındaki Elif kızımız da hayata yeniden merhaba dedi. Yaşamdan yana olan umut ve mücadelemize güç kattınız. Ekiplerimize minnettarız. pic.twitter.com/ukl6kqv2Wg— Dr. Fahrettin Koca (@drfahrettinkoca) November 2, 2020
Meanwhile, the death toll in the earthquake reached 102, after emergency crews retrieved more bodies elsewhere in Turkey’s third-largest city.
The U.S. Geological Survey rated the quake at 7.0 magnitude, although other agencies in Turkey recorded it as less severe.
The vast majority of the deaths and nearly 1,000 injuries occurred in Izmir. Two teenagers also died and 19 people were injured on the Greek island of Samos, near the quake’s epicenter in the Aegean Sea.
Officials said 147 quake survivors were still hospitalized, and three of them were in serious condition.
(AP)
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