Rescuers pulled a woman alive out of the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey on Friday, prompting cheers from onlookers about 104 hours after she was buried by the huge earthquake that wrought death and destruction across the region.
Rescuers are struggling against the freezing snow and rain to pull survivors from the rubble in Turkey and Syria amid growing concerns about how long they could last in the cold. The death toll from the earthquakes crossed 8,000 on Wednesday.
Turkey and Syria were hit by a series of earthquakes on Monday that have killed over 12,000 people so far. India has sent relief materials, and specialised search and rescue teams in two military transport aircraft to help Turkey.
The Syria-Turkey earthquake brought widespread destruction to the two regions on Monday as the 7.8-magnitude tremor was one of the deadliest in the last decade.