Teen survives 182 (!) hours under rubble, man cheers when his mother is rescued after more than a week | Instagram VTM NEWS

The teen held a rescuer’s hand as he was placed on the stretcher. The most beautiful image came from Hatay province: a man shouted his joy when he heard that his mother Saadet Sendag would make it.

A total of eight more victims were rescued today. Among them is a four-year-old girl from Adiyaman, who is called Miray in local media. 170 hours after the first quake, a woman was also rescued from the rubble of an apartment building.

In Hatay, there was also redeeming news for seven-year-old Mustafa last night, he had been under the rubble for 163 hours. In Nurdagi (Gaziantep), rescuers were also able to free 62-year-old Nafize Yilmaz.

In southeastern Turkey, an 85-year-old woman was rescued alive and well after six days. The room in which she lay was barely 30 to 40 centimeters wide. Her cousin Mustafa filmed the moment when rescuers were able to free Ismihan.

The first 72 hours after a disaster are crucial for finding people alive. The fact that people are still found a week later can be called miraculous.

Here and there hope is still alive today. In the city of Kahramanmaras, digging is going on to reach a grandmother, her daughter and her granddaughter. There would still be contact with them. In the province of the same name, a mother and her baby are also said to be alive under the rubble, writes CNN Türk.

LOOK. Gazali got out of her collapsing house just in time during an earthquake: she endearingly shows her gratitude to our reporter Julie Colpaert.

Nearly 35,000 people are currently engaged in rescue efforts, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said. Some 1.2 million people are housed in student housing, and another 400,000 have been evacuated from the disaster area.

The United Nations thinks the rescue phase in Turkey and Syria is “ending”. The focus would now shift to emergency relief, such as providing shelter, food and psychological assistance to victims and survivors.

The UN wants the emergency aid not only to be limited to Turkey and the government areas in Syria. The hard-to-reach region that is under the control of rebels must also receive the necessary help. According to the UN, aid is coming that way through government territory.

LOOK. Reporter Julie Colpaert was on site last week in the worst affected region of Turkey.

The death toll has risen to more than 37,500 a week after the initial quake. In Turkey alone, 31,643 deaths have been counted, the pro-government news agency Anadolu reports on the basis of disaster relief service AFAD. Another 80,000 others were injured.

At least 5,900 people have already been killed in neighboring Syria, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency response coordinator, expects the earthquake to have killed more than 50,000 people.