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(CNN) – A three-year-old girl was rescued alive from a collapsed apartment building in Izmir, Turkey, following Friday’s strong earthquake, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency.
The boy, identified by authorities as Elif Perincek, was rescued Monday morning, more than 65 hours after the devastating earthquake. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Perincek’s mother and two other people were rescued earlier, but one of his brothers had unfortunately died.
News of the rescue came just hours after another boy was found alive under the rubble and rescued to the surface by rescue teams. Turkey’s Emergency and Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) said 14-year-old Idil Sirin was rescued after spending more than 58 hours trapped under a collapsed building.
In phone video showing the dramatic moment of Sirin’s rescue, dozens of onlookers can be heard cheering enthusiastically as they free her from the rubble. She was given first aid at the scene before she was transferred to a local hospital, according to Anadolu.
Dozens of people were killed and hundreds more injured after the earthquake, measured at a magnitude of 7.0 by the US Geological Survey, which hit the Aegean Sea on Friday, shaking parts of Greece and Turkey.
The quake struck 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) northeast of the town of Néon Karlovásion on Samos, the USGS reported, at a relatively shallow depth of 21 kilometers (13 miles), making its impact felt powerfully at ground level around the epicenter.
A total of 20 buildings were badly damaged in Izmir by the earthquake, according to Izmir Mayor Tunc Soyer, most of them in the middle-class Bayrakli district.
More than 900 aftershocks have been recorded since the initial earthquake, 42 of them with a magnitude greater than 4.0, Turkey’s disaster agency said. The earthquake also triggered what authorities called a “mini tsunami,” which caused streets to flood on Friday in parts of Turkey’s broader Izmir province, as well as Samos.
This story was first published on CNN.com, “Three-year-old girl rescued alive after 65 hours trapped under rubble in Turkey earthquake.”
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