A new-born baby and his mother have been rescued from rubble in Turkey, around
90 hours after the first of Monday's deadly earthquakes.
The 10-day-old
boy, named Yagiz, was retrieved from a ruined structure in the southern Hatay
province.
Footage showed
the child being carefully taken out overnight - a sight described by local
media as miraculous.
Hopes of finding
many more survivors are diminishing, amid freezing-cold weather four days after
the disaster.
However, search
and rescue efforts continue in both Turkey and neighbouring Syria - which was
struck by the quakes as well.
New-born Yagiz
was pictured wrapped in a thermal blanket being carried to an ambulance to
receive treatment.
His mother was
brought out on a stretcher. There were no further updates immediately available
over the health of both.
Istanbul Mayor
Ekrem Imamoglu - whose teams were reportedly involved in the rescue - tweeted
about the rescue, saying it happened in the town of Samandag.
Footage obtained
by the Reuters news agency also showed a man being retrieved from the ruins,
though it was not known if he had any connection to the other two.
More than 21,000
people have died - most of them in Turkey - after Monday morning's initial
7.8-magnitude tremor and the hundreds of aftershocks that followed.
There have also
been fears of a secondary catastrophe, as many people have been made homeless
and are lacking shelter, water, fuel and electricity.
Turkish
President Recap Tayyip Erdogan has described it as the "disaster of the
century".
Opposition figures have accused Mr Erdogan of failing to prepare for the earthquake and have questioned how estimated 88bn lira ($4.6bn; £3.8bn) raised from an "earthquake tax" was spent. The levy - first imposed in the wake of a massive quake in 1999 that killed more than 17,000 people - was meant to have been spent on disaster prevention and the development of emergency services.
Kemal
Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey's main opposition party said on Wednesday
that said Mr Erdogan's government "has not prepared for an earthquake for
20 years".
Despite the
devastation, stories of remarkable escapes or heroic rescues have been emerging
over the past days.
Thousands of
people have offered to adopt a baby girl who was born under a collapsed
building in north-west Syria.
When she was
rescued, baby Aya - meaning miracle in Arabic - was still connected by her
umbilical cord to her mother, who died along with other family members.
By James FitzGerald || BBC News
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