Authorities said more than 92,600 other people were injured in the disaster. 9News
The 23-year-old cellphone shop worker from the Syrian town of Jableh survived on dirty drips of water and eventually lost hope that he'd be saved.
More than a dozen survivors were rescued on Saturday, including a family in Kahramanmaras, the Turkish city closest to the epicentre of Monday's quake. Crews there helped 12-year-old Nehir Naz Narli to safety before going back for her parents.People mourn for their relatives who lost their life because of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria.
"It is important that the family could say goodbye, that they could see each other one more time, that they could hug each other again," a member of the rescue team told German TV news channel n-tv. Acting on a tip, a rescue team from Hong Kong found three survivors under a building near the city's centre on Saturday, said Gallant Wong, the group's spokesperson.
"No one is answering to us, and no one comes to look," she said. "They have stopped us from looking ourselves. I don't know why." Wincing in pain, he said he was rescued from his collapsed apartment building in nearby Antakya within hours of the quake. But after receiving basic first aid, he was released without getting proper treatment."My daughter is dead, my sibling died, my aunt and her daughter died, and the wife of her son" who was eight and a half months pregnant.
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