After the powerful earthquake that killed more than 100 people in Turkey four days ago, helpers managed to pull out of the rubble and rubble, a four-year-old girl near Izmir.
The girl, alive, was evacuated to applause.
A four-year-old girl buried under rubble was rescued in western Turkey on Tuesday, nearly four days after a powerful earthquake that left more than 100 dead, according to the mayor of the city of Izmir and information from AFP correspondents.
“We witnessed a 91st hour miracle. Rescuers pulled four-year-old Ayda out alive,” Mayor Tunc Soyer said on Twitter. “In this time of suffering, we have also experienced this moment of joy, ”he added.
AFP correspondents saw rescuers evacuate the girl, to applause, from the ruins of a collapsed building in the Bayrakli district, hit hard by the earthquake on Friday.
Two other girls already rescued
Draped in an aluminum survival blanket, the girl Ayda Gezgin was evacuated on a stretcher to a hospital by teams from the Turkish government agency for disaster situations (Afad), according to AFP correspondents.
Some rescuers filmed the evacuation using their mobile phones to capture the moment.
On Monday, rescuers had uprooted two other living girls, aged 3 and 14, from the rubble of two collapsed buildings in Izmir province.
More than 100 dead
The death toll from this earthquake reached 102 dead on Tuesday, according to Afad.
The magnitude 7 earthquake on the Richter scale also left 994 injured, 147 of whom are still hospitalized.
The earthquake, whose epicenter was in the Aegean Sea, also struck the Greek island of Samos, killing two.