Rescue crews miraculously continued pulling survivors from the rubble in Turkey and Syria more than nine days after the region’s deadliest earthquake in modern history — including a 77-year-old woman who was found alive 212 hours after the tremblor.
Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense released video Wednesday showing workers carrying Fatma Gungor to safety in the city of Adiyaman on Tuesday.
“I’m so excited, I don’t know what to say. We almost got to the point of giving up,” one of the crew members who extricated Gungor from the debris told public broadcaster TRT Haber.
Gungor was loaded into a helicopter and flown to a hospital in the city of Mersin to be treated for injuries.
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