91 hours after the earthquake in the Aegean Sea, a rescue team found another living child among the rubble, the mayor of the Turkish city of Izmir reports to news agency Anatolia.
The exact state of the child has not been disclosed. On Monday, another three-year-old girl was taken out alive from the rubble.
More than a hundred people have been rescued since Friday afternoon’s quake. About 1,400 aftershocks have already occurred. Turkey was hit by a severe earthquake on Friday. It also hit the Greek island of Samos, where two people were killed.
Victims are still being searched for in five collapsed buildings. Some eight thousand people and 25 rescue dogs provided assistance. More than 3,500 tents and 13,000 beds have been provided to provide temporary shelter for people.
Death toll also continues to rise
The death toll after the major earthquake has risen from 79 to 102. According to Turkish authorities, 847 of the 994 injured have now been released from hospital.
Several fault lines of tectonic plates run through Turkey, causing many earthquakes in the Izmir region. In 1999, eighteen thousand people were killed in two major earthquakes in the northwest of the country.
The epicenter of Friday’s earthquake was in the Aegean Sea northwest of Samos and had a magnitude of 6.9.
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