A 12-year-old boy was rescued from the ruins of a building in Antakya, Hatay province, 260 hours after the devastating earthquakes that hit the southern provinces of Turkey.
Search and rescue teams rescued a boy, Osman Halebia, a foreign citizen, from under the ruins of a building in the Ekinci district, Anadolu Agency reports.
The boy was pulled alive from the rubble nearly eleven days after the devastating earthquakes.
After the rescue operation, he was transported by ambulance to the hospital.
More than 100 trucks of United Nations (UN) aid, including tents, heaters and cholera testing kits, have crossed into northwestern Syria.
"The UN continues its operation with the aim of using all three Turkish-Syrian border crossings, in order to provide aid to different areas in that country," the UN statement said.
It added that shelter needs were identified as a priority among the displaced population in the opposition-controlled area, which was badly affected by the devastating earthquake.
Previously, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Syria, Muhannad Hadi, warned that the death toll in that country is likely to increase.
The UN has so far reported 5,8 dead in Syria, including 4,4 in rebel-held parts of the country.
"We hope that number will not increase much. "But from what we see, the level of destruction does not give us much hope that it will be the final balance," Hadi said.
A video from a surveillance camera located on the nearby Ahir mountain reveals the magnitude of the disaster once again.
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AFAD added that more than 4.300 aftershocks have hit the disaster zone since the initial major earthquake.
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