Four-year-old girl rescued alive in Turkey four days after deadly earthquake

Turkish rescuers saved another young girl from a collapsed apartment building in Izmir on Tuesday, four days after a deadly earthquake hit the Aegean region. Ayda Gezgin was carried to an ambulance wrapped in a space blanket flanked by cheering rescue workers on Tuesday morning, in a scene similar to the day before, when a three-year-old girl was found alive in similar circumstances. "We have witnessed a miracle in the 91st hour," Izmir mayor Tunc Soyer tweeted. "Rescue teams pulled out four-year-old Ayda alive. Along with the great pain we have experienced, we have this joy as well." The death toll from Friday’s earthquake has now reached 102, mostly in the Turkish coastal province of Izmir, with two fatalities on the Greek island of Samos. The 7.0 magnitude quake also injured 994 people, according to Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), with 147 patients still hospitalised.

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