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Boy, 2, saved from Turkey earthquake rubble 133 hours after he was buried alive

Turkey Syria

He is a picture of hope amid the devastation and despair. A two-year-old boy is plucked from the rubble alive, 133 hours after being buried in Monday’s earthquake.

Aliye Dagli is one of several children who have survived for five days against all odds. The official death toll is now 21,848 in Turkey and 3,553 in Syria but the United Nations warned the number could double.

Also in Turkey’s Hatay province, 35-year-old Ozlem Yilmaz and her six-year-old daughter Hatice were found alive in the ruins after 117 hours. And after 119 hours buried in Kahramanmaras, Kamil Can Agas, 16, asked his rescuers: “What day is it?”

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