- Late on Friday night in the devastated Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, British and German rescuers found and pulled to safety a 15-year-old girl
- More than 24,000 people are now known to have died after Monday's earthquakes in southern Turkey and northern Syria
- Syrian state media say Damascus has now given permission for international aid to be sent to earthquake victims in rebel-held areas across government lines
- A spokesman for the UN secretary-general has told the BBC they are trying to get more aid into rebel-held areas "as quickly as possible"
- In Syria alone, it’s feared up to 5.3 million may have been made homeless
- The BBC's Quentin Sommerville is in Harem, Syria, and reports that people are telling him it's too late for aid and they've stopped recovery efforts
Despite hope
fading that a significant number of people will be rescued from the rubble,
moments of miraculous rescues are still emerging from the region.
Five days since
the first 7.8 magnitude tremor struck Turkey in the early hours of Monday
morning, people were still being pulled from the rubble alive.
Video footage
uploaded to social media showed the moment a pregnant woman and her young
daughter were stretchered out of a flattened building in Turkish city of
Gaziantep after surviving for 115 hours.
There have also
been reports of several people being rescued across quake-struck areas in
Turkey after 110 hours - including a teenager.
Video from a
German disaster response organisation reportedly showed a girl being pulled
alive from the rubble in Kahramanmaras after being trapped for more than 110
hours.
Turkey's
Humanitarian Relief Foundation also released video showing a man being stretchered
from the wreckage to a nearby ambulance
Source: BBCNEWS
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