Turkish girl rescued after being stuck under rubble for 178 hours
Brady Knox
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A 6-year-old Turkish girl was rescued after having been trapped under rubble for 178 hours.
The girl, Miray, was recovered from the city of Adiyaman in southern Turkey, the BBC reported, over a week after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks devastated the region.
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Video showed workers celebrating as they pulled the girl from the rubble. The rescue is likely to be among the last as the deadline for how long humans can survive without water approaches.
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However, the rescue at 178 hours surpassed some experts’ estimates as to how long locals could survive. David Alexander, professor of emergency planning and management at University College London, told the Associated Press last Wednesday, “Statistically, today is the day when we’re going to stop finding people.” Miray beat his prediction by roughly five days.
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Other reports of similarly late rescues have emerged, including Naide Umay, who was rescued after 175 hours, and a 64-year-old woman at 150 hours, Al Jazeera reported.
Despite the rescues, the death toll from the deadliest earthquake in over a decade is over 36,000, CNN reported, with the true total likely much higher.