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TO 261 hours after the earthquake it hit devastatingly Turkey and Syria, two men were aged 26 and 34 Extracted live from the rubble of a private hospital in the Turkish city of Hatay. Rescuers were working around the collapsed building when they heard a noise, possibly a voice, and dug in that direction. Mehmet Ali Sakiroglu, one of the two rescued, had taken his son to the hospital a day before the earthquake, Anadolu Agency reports.
Over 41,000 casualties According to the latest figure released by medical sources, over 41,000 would have died in the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6. In Turkey, the confirmed dead are 38,044, in Syria 3,688.
Strong 5.2 magnitude aftershock on Thursday evening On Thursday evening, a strong aftershock with a magnitude of 5.2 shook the area between Turkey and Syria affected by the earthquake. The epicenter was in Iskenderun in southern Turkey. In Aleppo, northern Syria, another building collapsed, leaving more victims under the rubble. About 4,734 aftershocks were recorded in the country over the past 11 days, according to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).