Turkey: Couple Saved 296 Hours After Quake, but Children Die

Turkey: Couple Saved 296 Hours After Quake, but Children Die
Rescue workers pull out Samir Muhammed Accar, a Syrian migrant, from a collapsed building in Antakya, Turkey, on Feb. 18, 2023. IHA via AP
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ISTANBUL—A couple and their son were pulled alive from under a collapsed apartment building more than 12 days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ravaged parts of Turkey and Syria, although the child later died at a hospital, Turkish state media reported Saturday.

A foreign search team from Kyrgyzstan rescued Samir Muhammed Accar, 49, his wife, Ragda, 40, and their 12-year-old son while digging through the rubble of the apartment building in the southern Turkish city of Antakya, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.