A four-year-old girl was pulled out of the rubble alive on Tuesday days after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Turkey’s Aegean region.
SHE BECAME THE 107TH SURVIVOR
Ayda Gezgin was rescued in the Bayrakli district of the Aegean Izmir province 91 hours after the quake.
Ayla, the 107th survivor to be rescued, was taken to hospital.
The cameras caught the emotional moments of after miraculous rescue as Ayda shouted “mom” while was being carried on stretcher to an ambulance.
Rescue teams found Ayda’s mother Fidan Gezgin’s body.
4-year-old infant rescued under debris 91 hours after quake WATCH
On Twitter, Mehmet Gulluoglu, the head of Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), expressed happiness at the little girl’s rescue.
Speaking to reporters following Ayla’s rescue, a rescue team member, Nusret Aksoy, said he spotted the struggling young girl waving her hand.
