A dog has been found alive under rubble five days after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey.
Elif Polat, a nurse working with a search and rescue team in hard-hit Hatay province, said the dog was found about 138 hours after the earthquake hit southern Turkey.
“It was miraculous because we were clearing debris and just dead bodies, and the dog was buried in the rubble with almost no gaps,” she said.
Video shows first responders pulling on the dog’s collar to help the animal out of the rubble on Saturday night. The dog could later be seen wagging its tail.
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A dog was found alive under rubble in Turkey’s Hatay province on Saturday night. (@eliffpolaat via SPECTEE/TMX)
In the southeastern city of Adiyaman, a 4-year-old girl was found alive in rubble on Monday, 177 hours after the earthquake, while a 13-year-old boy was found alive five hours later in Hatay province, according to The Associated Press .
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A woman weeps as people stand in front of a destroyed building in Kahramanmaras, southeastern Turkey, on Monday February 13. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
As of Monday, more than 35,000 have been reported dead in Turkey and Syria as a result of the earthquake.
The cracks were seen along the road near the southern Turkey town of Pazarcik on Sunday, February 12, after last week’s earthquake. (IHA via AP)
But the toll is likely to exceed 56,000 people, said UN emergency relief chief Martin Griffiths.
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“I think it’s difficult to estimate precisely why we have to go under rubble, but I’m sure it will double or more,” Griffiths told Sky News over the weekend. “It’s terrifying. This is nature reacting really hard.”
Paul Best of Fox News contributed to this report.
