18-year-old boy rescued 100 hours after quake in eastern Turkey

A person was rescued nearly 100 hours after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey’s eastern province of Van, according to Anatolia news agency.

Search and rescue teams of Azerbaijan pulled Imdat Padak alive out of the debris of an apartment building which collapsed on Zeylan Street in Ercis during the quake.

Health officials were quoted as saying that Padak, who was conscious and taken to a hospital in Van by an ambulance helicopter, was suffering only from dehydration.

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Administration (AFAD) said early Thursday that 185 people have been rescued from collapsed buildings since the quake.


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