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TURKEY-SYRIA EARTHQUAKE: NEW-BORN AND MOTHER SAVED AFTER FOUR DAYS IN RUBBLE

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The 10-day-old baby was taken to an ambulance after being saved from a collapsed
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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.

 * Follow the response in Turkey and Syria - live

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 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.

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