Teenage girl pulled out alive from rubble in Turkey 10 days after deadly earthquake

‘She looked to be in good health. She opened and closed her eyes’

A teenager was rescued from underneath the rubble in Turkey, more than 10 days after powerful earthquakes left behind a sea of destruction and deaths.

The 17-year-old girl was pulled alive from the ruins of a collapsed apartment block in Turkey’s south-eastern Kahramanmaras province nearly 248 hours after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region.

Footage shared by the Sakarya Metropolitan Municipality showed the "miracle girl" being carried on a stretcher to an ambulance, covered with a gold-coloured thermal blanket.