Infant rescued a week after quakeEND OF OPERATIONS: Taiwan’s rescue team was to return home on Wednesday, as the hope of finding survivors more than a week after the quake dimmedAFP, KAHRAMANMARAS, TurkeyRescuers yesterday pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble nearly a week after a powerful earthquake devastated huge areas of Turkey and Syria, killing more than 28,000 people. Rescuers transport a Syrian girl from the rubble of a destroyed building in Turkey’s Hatay Province yesterday, almost a week after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. A seven-month-old baby named Hamza was rescued in southern Hatay Province more than 140 hours after the quake, while Esma Sultan, 13, was also saved in Gaziantep, state media reported. Families were racing against time to find their missing relatives’ bodies in southern Turkey. On Thursday, about 89 hours after the quake, members of the Taiwanese team pulled a 35-year-old woman from a collapsed residential building.

Source: Taipei Times February 12, 2023 16:49 UTC