Five days in, survivors still found in quake-hit Turkey, Syria

Turkish rescuers work to pull out Ergin Guzeloglan, 36, from a collapsed building five days after an earthquake in Hatay, southern Turkey, early Saturday, February 11, 2023. [Can Ozer, AP]

Rescue teams in Turkey on Saturday pulled to safety a family of five who survived inside their collapsed home for five days following a major earthquake in a sprawling border region of Turkey and Syria. The death toll, however, was approaching 25,000.

They first extricated mother and daughter Havva and Fatmagul Aslan from among a mound of debris in the hard-hit town of Nurdag, in Gaziantep province, HaberTurk reported. The teams later reached the father, Hasan Aslan, but he insisted that his other daughter, Zeynep, and son Saltik Bugra be saved first.