In Turkey earthquake, a girl rescued after 10 days...

Survived under quake rubble...


After days of deadly earthquake in Turkey a teenage girl has been rescued. 

Aleyna Olmez, a 17-year-old was rescued, found under the rubble in kahramanmara?, a southern city near the epicenter.

Her uncle while crying told rescue team "we will never forget you", and hugged each of them. 

In freezing weather conditions Aleyna survived, injured for 10 days. Her rescuing is increasingly rare. 

In Turkey and Syria more than 41,000 people have died from 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The number of how many people are still not rescued is not revealed by both country.

Aleyna was gently prised from the ruins of a flattened apartment block, Turkish broadcaster TRT Haber reported. 

"She looked to be in better health than many others and she also opened and closed her eyes," Ali Akdogan, a coal miner, said.

"We are glad whenever we find a living thing, even a cat, we have been working in this building for almost a week now," he added.

However celebration did not last longer. As after the rescue, because teams were finding corpse that would soon to be carried out, Turkish soldiers ordered people to leave the scene.

 

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