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By Reuters 
1 hour ago
Kemal Aslan
Izmir, Turkey – A young woman was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in the western Turkish city of Izmir on Tuesday, more than 90 hours after a deadly earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed at least 104 people. .
Rescuers heard Ayda Gezgin’s screams from under the rubble and managed to get her out hours later, carrying her on a stretcher as emergency crews continued to search five apartment blocks for survivors.
The images showed Ayda’s father hugging her after she was found under the rubble, covered in dust. Crowds in the area cheered for rescuers after they took away the girl, whose age was between three and four years old.
“She smiled, she was waiting for us,” said Levent Onur, one of the rescue workers who pulled Ayda out, adding that the girl was trapped behind a washing machine that protected her from injury.
“The name of our miracle after 91 hours is Ayda. Thank God,” Cabinet Minister Murat Kurum tweeted.
Friday’s earthquake in the Aegean Sea was the deadliest to affect Turkey in nearly a decade, with 102 people killed in Izmir and two teenagers on the Greek island of Samos, according to Turkey’s Emergency and Disaster Management Authority (AFAD ).
The earthquake injured 1,026 people, 143 of whom are still receiving treatment in Izmir, AFAD said. More than 3,500 tents and 13,000 beds are being used for temporary shelters in Turkey, where relief efforts have attracted nearly 8,000 people and 25 rescue dogs, the agency said.
The Istanbul-based Kandilli Institute said Friday’s earthquake had a magnitude of 6.9. There have been 1,475 aftershocks, AFAD said.
Turkey is riddled with faults and prone to earthquakes. More than 500 people were killed in a 2011 earthquake in the eastern city of Van, while another in January this year killed 41 people in the eastern province of Elazig.
In 1999, two strong earthquakes killed 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey. AFAD said Friday’s earthquake had a magnitude of 6.6, with about 1,400 aftershocks.
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