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The young girl, Ayda Gezgin, is pulled out by rescue workers out of the rubble of a collapsed building, in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir, Turkey, November 3, 2020. /AP
Even as hopes of reaching survivors began to fade, rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building on Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece.
Wrapped in a thermal blanket, the girl taken into an ambulance on a stretcher to the sounds of applause and chants of "God is great!" from rescue workers and onlookers.
Health Media Fahrettin Koca identified her as 3-year-old Ayda Gezgin on Twitter and shared a video of her inside the ambulance. The child had been trapped inside the rubble for 91 hours since Friday's quake struck in the Aegean Sea and was the 107th person to have been pulled out of collapse buildings alive.
Rescuer Nusret Aksoy told reporters that he was sifting through the rubble of the toppled eight-floor building when he heard a child's scream and called for silence. He later located the girl in a tight space next to a dishwasher.
The girl waved at him, told him her name and said that she was okay, Aksoy said.
"I got goosebumps and my colleague Ahmet cried," he said.
Meanwhile, death toll in the earthquake reached 104, after emergency crews retrieved more bodies elsewhere in the city, including two teenagers who also died on the Greek island of Samos.
The quake injured at least 994 people, AFAD said earlier on Monday, after striking on Friday afternoon off Turkey's Aegean coast
, north of the Greek island of Samos, bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves that slammed into coastal areas and islands. Around 220 people are still being treated for injuries.
It is the deadliest quake to hit Turkey in nearly a decade since one in the eastern city of Van in 2011 that killed more than 500 people.
Rescuers search for survivors at a collapsed building after an earthquake hit the Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey, October 31, 2020. /Reuters
What happened on Friday?
The magnitude-6.6 quake earthquake at 14:51 local time (11:51 GMT) on Friday struck off Turkey's Aegean coast, north of the Greek island of Samos, according to AFAD. The epicenter was measured at 17 km off the coast of Seferihisar district in the western province of Izmir with a depth of 16.54 km.
USGS said the quake struck was magnitude-7.0 at a depth of 21 km and was felt as far away as Athens and Istanbul, triggering a mini tsunami.
A sea surge flooded streets near Izmir, a Turkish city with a population of around three million people, where buildings were reduced to rubble.
Classes in Izmir will also be halted for one week due to the earthquake.
At least 92 dead, hundreds injured as major quake hits Turkey, Greece
(With input from agencies)
