At 4.17am native time on Monday, the primary in a sequence of earthquakes and aftershocks struck cities in Turkey and Syria, inflicting widespread devastation and the deaths of hundreds.

Greater than 100 hours later, rescuers proceed to work across the clock, hoping to tug extra survivors from the particles.

In Kahramanmaras, search and rescue groups are trudging alongside mountains of particles, as main elements of town centre – together with residential buildings, places of work, banks and markets – changed into rubble within the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 and seven.6 earthquakes.

Dozens of native organisations and a gentle stream of volunteers are aiding the search, rescue and aid operations. Given the enormity of the duty, worldwide groups have arrived to assist discover survivors.

Because the loss of life toll reached greater than 21,500 on Friday – amid freezing temperatures and mountains of spoil – hopes of discovering many extra individuals alive are dwindling.

But, surrounded by destruction, tales of resilience and survival have emerged; of lives miraculously saved even after days trapped beneath the rubble.

Listed here are the tales of a few of those that survived:

104 hours: Zeynep Kahraman, 40, was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed constructing within the city of Kirikhan on Friday, 104 hours after she was buried alive by the earthquake. German emergency employees lifted her onto a stretcher and into an ambulance. “Now I imagine in miracles,” Steven Bayer, the chief of the worldwide search and rescue workforce mentioned on the website. “You’ll be able to see the individuals crying and hugging one another. It’s such an enormous aid that this lady beneath such situations got here out so match. It’s an absolute miracle.”

In Adiyaman province, southern Turkey, Eyup Ak, 60, was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed constructing on Friday, additionally 104 hours after being trapped by the quake. Ak was carried on a stretcher to obtain medical consideration following his rescue.

103 hours: Murat Vural, 66, was rescued within the province of Gaziantep, Islahiye district, 103 hours after the primary earthquake had struck. Vural was carried out of the particles after 10 hours of labor by members of Turkey’s Nationwide Medical Rescue Workforce (UMKE) and police.

In Kahramanmaras, a 15-year-old Syrian lady was rescued by Azerbaijani groups after 103 hours.

In Hatay, a three-and-a-half-year-old lady was pulled from the rubble, additionally 103 hours for the reason that preliminary quake.

102 hours: Within the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras province, UMKE and police groups saved the lifetime of 33-year-old Mustafa Sahin Sami, 102 hours after the primary earthquake. The groups labored for 12 hours to rescue him from the rubble of a seven-storey constructing.

101 hours: Rescue employees in Iskenderun, Turkey mentioned six individuals had been pulled from a collapsed constructing on Friday morning after spending 101 hours beneath the rubble. The six individuals, all kin, survived by huddling collectively in a small pocket left inside the collapsed construction, based on Murat Baygul, a search and rescue employee.

In Hatay province, a miner crew from Zonguldak province saved a mom, Ihlas Ayaz, and her son, 101 hours after the primary earthquake struck.

In Kahramanmaras province, two sisters aged 15 and 13 had been pulled from the rubble on Friday. The 15-year-old was trapped for 99 hours, her youthful sister for 101 hours; each got medical consideration.

100 hours: Naim Bayasli, 32, was rescued by an Uzbek rescue workforce from beneath the rubble of a collapsed constructing in Hatay province after he was trapped for 100 hours.

96 hours: A household, together with a one-and-a-half-year-old lady, was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed constructing on Friday. The members of the family included the infant’s mom, father, brother and uncle. They had been saved in Hatay’s Antakya district after being trapped for 96 hours.

Rescue groups in Kahramanmaras pulled a younger Syrian lady, Fatma Karus, 26, alive from the rubble on Friday, 96 hours after the earthquake.

94 hours: Earlier than daybreak on Friday, rescuers in Gaziantep pulled a 17-year-old youth from the basement the place had been trapped for 94 hours. “Thank God you arrived,” he mentioned, embracing his mom and others who leaned right down to kiss and hug him as he was being loaded into an ambulance. A crowd of associates and kin chanted his title, clapping and crying tears of pleasure as he was carried out. {The teenager} mentioned he had been pressured to drink his personal urine to slake his thirst.“I used to be capable of survive that method. A rescue employee, recognized solely as Yasemin, advised him: “I’ve a son identical to you … I swear to you, I’ve not slept for 4 days. I swear I didn’t sleep; I used to be attempting to get you out.”

90 hours: A ten-day-old toddler was discovered alive along with his mom in Hatay after 90 hours trapped. A five-year-old lady and her father had been pulled out of the rubble additionally on the ninetieth hour.

89 hours: In Kahramanmaras, a seven-year-old boy and his 32-year-old father Ozan Ramazan Guclu had been discovered alive after 89 hours.

88 hours: In Adıyaman, rescue groups had been capable of save two siblings aged seven and 14 from the rubble of a six-storey constructing after 88 hours.