A TODDLER was freed from quake rubble after 159 hours entombed in concrete.
The two-year old girl’s miracle rescue came six days after the disaster devastated a swathe of Turkey and Syria.
GettyA toddler was freed from quake rubble after 159 hours entombed in concrete[/caption]
GettyThe death toll climbed to more than 33,000 yesterday with the United Nations warning that the final number may be twice as high[/caption]
Other stories of hope included five-year-old Emira and her father being pulled from debris in Hatay Province.
A ten-year-old called Cudi was pulled through a hole in the floor of a damaged building after being buried alive for 147 hours.
But the stories of hope are tempered by tragic loss.
The death toll climbed to more than 33,000 yesterday with the United Nations warning that the final number may be twice as high.
And survivors at the epicentre of the quake — currently sleeping in cars and tents despite freezing temperatures — rely on food handouts and hygiene kits.
The UK’s development minister Andrew Mitchell described conditions as “bleak beyond belief”.
Zekariya Bagriacik, 40, who works for the local Sacaklizade charity, said: “The water is contaminated and making people ill, the gas is off and electricity only works in places.”
Avril Benoît, executive director for Doctors Without Borders USA, said that people will die without access to medications to control chronic illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes.
GettyOther stories of hope include children being pulled from debris in Hatay Province.[/caption]
GettyThe situation was described by a minister as ‘bleak beyond belief’[/caption]
