Rescue teams today pulled two girls from the ruins of an apartment building in the Turkish city of Izmir, a few days after a powerful earthquake, centered in the Aegean Sea, struck Turkey and Greece.
The total death toll from the earthquake that struck the two countries on Friday reached 81 as civil protection teams found more bodies overnight in collapsed buildings in Izmir, Turkey's third-largest city.
More than a thousand people were injured in the earthquake whose epicenter was in the Aegean Sea, northeast of the Greek island of Samos.
Two teenagers died on the island and at least 19 people were injured.
Everyone applauded the rescuers when a 14-year-old girl was pulled out of the ruins in Izmir, after spending 58 hours under the ruins.
Her eight-year-old sister did not survive, NTV reported.
Seven hours later, rescuers pulled out a three-year-old girl from another collapsed building.
Her mother and two sisters were rescued two days earlier.
The child spent 65 hours in the ruins of the building and became the 106th person to be rescued alive, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Onlookers clapped as ambulances transported the rescued girls to the hospital.
Reports of the earthquake's magnitude vary.
The US Geological Institute estimated that the earthquake was a magnitude seven, while the Istanbul Kandili Institute estimated its strength at 6,9, and the Turkish Emergency Management Agency at 6,6.
The earthquake triggered a small tsunami that hit Samos and the Seferihisar district of Izmir, when an elderly woman drowned.
The quake was felt across western Turkey, including Istanbul and the Greek capital, Athens.
It was followed by hundreds of aftershocks.
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