In a rare development that sent a glimmer of hope to aid workers, today, Wednesday, two people were rescued from under the rubble in Turkey, 9 days after the devastating earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria.
In the latest developments, Al-Jazeera correspondent said that rescue teams in Kahramanmaraş rescued a 72-year-old woman after spending 227 hours under the rubble.
The Turkish Ihlas Agency also published a video clip on Facebook that it said documents the moment the rescue teams working in the Kahramanmaraş region succeeded in removing the 74-year-old Jamil Kiki from the rubble of his house while he was alive 227 hours after the earthquake.
The video clips show the moment the rescue teams succeeded in removing the citizen from under the rubble and taking him to the hospital for treatment.
Hours before this operation, rescue teams in Kahramanmaraş managed to pull out a 42-year-old woman after she had been under the rubble for 222 hours.
The woman was taken to hospital for treatment, and a spokesman for the rescue team told Turkish media that the woman's health is good compared to the time she spent under the rubble.
On the sixth of February, a double earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, the first measuring 7.7 degrees and the other 7.6 degrees on the Richter scale, followed by hundreds of violent aftershocks, which left huge losses of lives and property in the two countries.