Thirteen Days after Earthquake: Rescue Crews Scooped Syrian Family from Rubble in Hatay, Turkyie

296 hours, or 13 days, after the devastating earthquake that struck southern Turkyie and northern Syria at dawn on February 6, Turkish rescue teams today, Saturday, pulled out a Syrian family of 3 alive, including a child, from under the rubble of a building in the centre of Antakya in Hatay Province in southern Turkey.

Al-Arabiya correspondent reported that the family consists of the father, the mother, and their 12-year-old child.

However, the reporter explained that the child died after several attempts by the medical staff to resuscitate him, while Samir Muhammad Akkar and his wife Raghda were transferred to a hospital in Adana for treatment.

This came after, on Friday, also in Hatay, near the Syrian border, a man named Hakan Yasin Oglu (45 years old) was found under the rubble 278 hours after the disaster.

3 other survivors were also found yesterday in the centre of Antioch.

The latest official death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake reached 45,000.