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Michael Howie

Turkey earthquake: Woman, 42, pulled to safety from rubble 222 hours after disaster

Rescue workers in Turkey’s Hatay province on Monday

(Picture: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A woman has been pulled alive from the rubble of a building almost 222 hours after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria.

TV footage showed rescue workers carrying the Melike Imamoglu, 42, strapped onto a stretcher, to an ambulance in the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras on Wednesday morning.

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