9 February 2023 at 17:21 Children rescued from the ruins 82 hours after the earthquake Two brothers aged five and eleven and a two-year-old boy were rescued alive from collapsed buildings in Turkey on Thursday, Turkish media reports. The two brothers were pulled from the ruins of a collapsed building in the city of Malatya on Thursday, 82 hours after the powerful earthquake struck, reports the Turkish television station NTV. A few hours earlier, a two-year-old boy was rescued alive in the city of Antakya. By then he had been trapped for 79 hours, according to the Turkish aid organization IHH. A family of four was also rescued from the ruins, 84 hours after the earthquake. The teams digging in the ruins of a block heard noises which they determined were coming from the lift shaft, and they managed to rescue the family. A mother and a 13-year-old son were rescued 86 hours after the earthquake.
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