A London firefighter helped to rescue a mother from the rubble in Turkey and reunite her with her young daughter, four days after the massive earthquake.
Incredible footage released by the London Fire Brigade (LFB) on Friday shows Edmonton-based firefighter Dom Mabbett among rescuers leading the woman to safety after more than 100 agonising hours of being trapped.
The 7.8 magnitude quake struck in Turkey and Syria early on Monday, killing more than 21,000 people - with the death toll still rising.
Mr Mabbett is part of the UK Fire and Rescue Service International Search and Rescue Team (UKISAR) deployed to help rescue efforts in Turkey.
The mother was trapped under rubble in the centre of Hatay in Turkey, the LFB said.
The video shows her being pulled to freedom from a collapsed building by three rescuers.
The woman was led down from the large pile of bricks and passed through a chain of search and rescue personnel before she hugged her young daughter tightly, causing onlookers to break out in smiles.
It comes after another mother and her ten-year-old son were also found alive in a destroyed building in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir.
At least seven children were rescued on Friday, with their astonishing survival providing inspiration for search crews who also saved several trapped adults.
The rescuers, including specialist teams from dozens of countries, toiled through the night in the ruins of thousands of wrecked buildings.
In freezing temperatures, they regularly called for silence as they listened for any sound of life from mangled concrete mounds.
But the response from Turkish authorities’ is not as fast as the government wanted, President Tayyip Erdogan said, adding that the death toll in the country had climbed to 18,991.
Speaking in Adiyaman province, which was also hit by the earthquakes, Mr Erdogan said some people were robbing markets and attacking businesses, adding that a state of emergency declared in the area will allow the state to impose the necessary penalties.
Meanwhile in Syria, the head of the Syrian White Helmets emergency response group accused the United Nations of failing to deliver appropriate humanitarian aid to rebel-held areas of the country ravaged by a major earthquake and its aftershocks.
Raed Al Saleh, who leads the group, said the area had not received any aid from the UN, saying that the six trucks that crossed the border into Syria on Thursday had been a regular shipment that had been delayed.
Saleh called the United Nations’ response “catastrophic” and said the body should “apologise to the Syrian people for the lack of help it provided”.
