More quake survivors saved in miraculous rescues as efforts enter day 7

On the day seven of the rescue efforts, teams striving hard witnessed more miraculous rescues on Sunday in the debris of powerful earthquakes hitting southern Türkiye earlier this week. Two sisters Rabia Kirmizi, 22, and Elif Kirmizi, 28, were rescued in the Adiyaman province after they were trapped under the concrete blocks for 152 hours. Rescue teams also digged out Haci Ahmet, a seven-year-old boy, from the debris of an eight-story building in Adiyaman 152 hours after the earthquake hit. In another rescue feeding hopes for more survivors, teams saved a mother and her son, Omer, after they were trapped in the debris for 150 hours. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca also said on Twitter that a baby was rescued from the debris in the Hatay province 150 hours after the quakes hit the region. He shared the footage of the rescue work, saying: 'There is always hope.' Muzeyyen Ofkeli, a 64-year-old woman, was also pulled out from the debris in Hatay. Ofkeli had been trapped in the rubble for 150 hours before she was rescued. Ten-year-old girl Cudi is another quake survivor rescued by teams from Istanbul in Kahramanmaras. She was rescued from the rubble 147 hours after the quake. Hamim Gullu, 13, was rescued in Adiyaman after being trapped in the debris for 145 hours. Adnan Ahmad Amir, a Syrian man, and his 4-year-old daughter Emira were also rescued 141 after the quake. Mustafa Sarigul, a 35-year-old man, was rescued from the rubble of a six-story building in Hatay's Antakya district, an area severely affected due to the twin earthquakes which struck Türkiye on Monday. Turkish and Romanian rescue teams were screened live on television as they worked five hours to pull Sarigul out from the debris where he was trapped for 146 hours. A young girl, Eylul Kilic, in Gaziantep's Nizip district was also rescued after she survived for 146 hours in debris of collapsed buildings. She was staying at her aunt's home when the quakes shook the region. The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, centered in the Kahramanmaras province, affected more than 13 million people across 10 provinces, including Hatay, Gaziantep, Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa. Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, felt the strong tremors that struck Türkiye in the space of less than 10 hours. In Syria, the regime and rescue officials reported at least 3,553 people were killed and more than 5,270 wounded.