As quake death toll...

Turkey finds new survivors as quake death toll exceeds 43,000

Even as the window for finding people alive shrank, rescuers withdrew several survivors from under the rubble.

People line-up for free food served amid the rubble following the deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey. Turkish interior minister Suleyman Soylu has refurbished the death toll in Turkey to 39,672, bringing the overall number of earthquake fatalities in both Turkey and Syria to 43,360.

Friday’s figure is certain to increase as search teams reclaim more bodies within the devastation transmmitted by the powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake — the deadliest disaster in Turkey’s modern history.

Even as the window for finding people alive shrank, rescuers reclaimed a survivor from the rubble of a collapsed building in the district of Defne, in hard-hit Hatay province, more than 11 days after the powerful earthquake struck.

Hakan Yasinoğlu, 45, spent 278 hours beneath the rubble, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. TV footage sported him being carried on a stretcher to an ambulance.

Search teams working overnight also scavanger a woman and two men alive in earthquake wreckage. The latest rescues came as crews began clearing debris in cities pillage by the earthquake.

Neslihan Kilic, a 29-year-old mother of two, was reclaimed from the rubble of a building in Kahramanmaras, after being trapped for 258 hours, the private DHA news agency reported late Thursday.

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