Despite dwindling prospects, rescue teams continued to extricate people, including entire families, from collapsed buildings on Saturday. This was despite the fact that the dead toll from the massive earthquake that rocked a border region between Turkey and Syria five days ago now exceeds 25,000.
Dramatic rescues were being shown on Turkish media, such as the 133-hour-old Narli family's recovery from a central Kahramanmaras earthquake. Nehir Naz Narli, 12 years old, was saved first, followed by her parents.
Following that, a family of five was rescued from a pile of debris in the badly damaged town of Nurdagi, in the province of Gaziantep, according to a report from TV network HaberTurk. As the last member of the family, the father, was hauled to safety, the crowd rejoiced and screamed, "God is Great!"
The death toll in Turkey was increased by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to 22,327 when he was visiting earthquake-stricken communities, bringing the regional death toll, which includes areas of Syria held by the government and rebels, to 25,880. In terms of the magnitude of the devastated area and the number of residents, Erdogan characterized the disaster's scope as exceptional. He referred to the earthquake as the "disaster of the century" and claimed that it had affected a region with a circumference of 500 km (310 mi) and a population of 13.5 million people in Turkey and an undetermined number in Syria.
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