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More people found alive in Turkey

But some rescue teams scale back operations as low temperatures reduce already slim chances of survival

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A man writes contact details in case a body is found under rubble of a destroyed building in Antakya, southeastern Turkey Monday. Pic/AP

A man writes contact details in case a body is found under rubble of a destroyed building in Antakya, southeastern Turkey Monday. Pic/AP

More than 200 hours after the quake struck, teacher Emine Akgul was pulled from a building in Antakya by a mining search and rescue team on Tuesday, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported. 

An 18-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a building in southern Turkey, the third rescue on Tuesday and some 198 hours after a devastating earthquake as aid workers shifted focus to those across Turkey and Syria left homeless in the bitter cold. Muhammed Cafer, could be seen moving his fingers as he was carried away, after surviving the huge Feb. 6 earthquake and major aftershock hours later. A little earlier, rescuers pulled two brothers alive from the ruins of an apartment block in Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province, who Anadolu news agency named as 17-year-old Muhammed Enes Yeninar and his brother, 21-year-old Baki Yeninar.

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