Rescuers found the teenager in the rubble 182 hours later.
Antakya, Turkey:
Rescue workers pulled a 13-year-old survivor from under the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey’s southern Hatay province on Monday, Reuters footage showed more than a week after a devastating earthquake struck.
Before being taken into an ambulance, the teen held a rescuer’s hand as he was placed on a stretcher, head tied and covered for warmth.
With hopes of finding many more survivors in the fast-evaporating rubble, the combined death toll from last Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Turkey and neighboring Syria has topped 37,000 and looks set to keep rising.
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