the search for survivors is still happening in turkey and syria, more than ten days after that catastrophic earthquake. officials say teams continue their efforts to find people who might be alive in hundreds of collapsed buildings across the country. this as the death toll there and in syria has now surpassed 46,000 people. but with the hope of finding survivors quickly fading we are still hearing stories of people who have somehow, some way been pulled from the rubble alive. this woman was one of three rescued in southern turkey this morning, nearly 300 hours after their building collapsed. here are the other remarkable stories i was able to report on from turkey this week. firefighters scan the debris for
46,000 people, there are now just under 100 search and rescue missions that are currently going on. while those efforts are winding down, more people are being pulled from the rubble alive. cn cnn s. reporter: survivors are still being pulled from the rubble. those remarkable rescues continuing through saturday. but the death toll is also still rising, topping 40,000 in turkey, and among them, christine atsu who was found dead under the rubble of a destroyed building, according to his agent. the window for finding survivors is of course closing with less than 200 search and rescue operations currently ongoing. the focus now shifting to the humanitarian response effort with thousands left homeless and in need of urgent support. the united nations meanwhile is appealing for $1 billion in aid to support the relief efforts over the next three months. u.n. secretary general antonio
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been hearing stories of the remarkable rescue efforts. yesterday we spoke to dr malcolm russell. he s the medical director at the uk international search and rescue team. he told us about the moment he found a man who d been buried under rubble for five days in hat ai, in turkey. in hatay, in turkey. robin brant has more on that incredible rescue. a week on from that devastating night, people are still being found alive. and british rescuers are part of that global effort, inching their way through the remnants of what were tall buildings. hello. it s malcolm. the doctor. |s ok? i m ok. ok. the team had to basically go through one building that was still standing, tunnel through the wall of that building and then out through that wall into the wall of the collapsed building, and then effectively mine a small tunnel to where they could hear two people tapping. dr malcolm russell is one of four medics on the uk international search and rescue team. sometimes people are still pulled from
mine a small tunnel to where they could hear two people tapping. dr malcolm russell is one of four medics on the uk international search and rescue team. sometimes people are still pulled from the rubble alive, you know, eight or nine days later. they tend to be more extreme cases. so at some point, inevitably, we will probably move or the whole operation will move more towards recovery. it took 20 hours to find and rescue two people in this building, which had collapsed in what s known as pancaking. the work is slow and it s gradual. first they found and helped a woman. then a boy. but, with him, it was even harder to extricate. he was stuck under a concrete beam.