A young girl was rescued from a collapsed building nearly 91 hours after a devastating earthquake hit the Aegean coastal Turkish city of Izmir on Friday.
Rescuers recovered Ayda’s mother’s dead body just hours after the girl’s rescue, according to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). She was lying next to Ayda under the rubble. At least 105 people died and 1,027 were injured in Turkey after the earthquake — measured as magnitude-7.0 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) — struck in the Aegean Sea on Friday, shaking parts of Greece and Turkey. The quake struck 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) northeast of the town of Néon Karlovásion on Samos, the USGS reported, at a relatively shallow depth of 21 kilometers (13 miles), making its impact powerfully felt at ground level around the epicenter. More than 1,508 aftershocks have been registered since the initial quake,44 of them with a magnitude above 4.
