Children Plucked From Ruins Days After Earthquake, but Death Tolls Tops 22,000

Children Plucked From Ruins Days After Earthquake, but Death Tolls Tops 22,000
Three days after a massive earthquake, rescuers extract a dog named Pamuk from the rubbles of a collapsed building in Hatay, Turkey, on Feb. 9, 2023. Gurkan Ozturk/AFP via Getty Images
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ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria—Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week’s huge earthquake.

The confirmed death toll from the deadliest quake in the region in two decades stood at more than 22,000 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria four days after it hit.