Rescuers in Turkey pulled several people alive from collapsed buildings on Monday, a week after the country’s worst earthquake in modern history, but hopes of many more survivors were fading.
Stories of near-miraculous rescues have flooded the airwaves in recent days, including many that were broadcast live on Turkish television and beamed around the world. But tens of thousands of dead have been found during the same period.
Rescue workers in Kahramanmeras province made contact on Monday with three survivors, believed to be a mother, daughter, and baby, in the ruins of a building.
A woman on the same day was pulled out alive from a collapsed apartment block in Hatay province by search and rescue teams from Turkey and Oman, state broadcaster TRT reported….