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Hope still prevails as more survivors pulled out of earthquake rubble in Türkiye's southern region

The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, centered in Kahramanmaras, affected more than 13 million people across 10 provinces, also including Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa. Rescue teams have been continuing to find more survivors on the 6th day of the quakes.

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Şengül Karabacak, 4 years old, and her father were pulled out of the rubble in the Islahiye district of Gaziantep some 132 hours after the quakes hit the region. Irem Bağriaçik, a 7-year-old girl, was also rescued in Belen in the Hatay province after days under the rubble. A day earlier her mother Halime, 27, was rescued from the same building. Rescue teams also recovered the bodies of her two siblings.