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Turkey: 3-year-old girl rescued 65 hours after quake

Turkey: 3-year-old girl rescued 65 hours after quake
Turkey: 3-year-old girl rescued 65 hours after quake

A wounded three-year-old girl has been rescued Monday, days after a powerful magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Turkey's Aegean coast. The child was pulled from debris nearly 65 hours after the quake in the Bayrakli district of western Izmir province.

About 23 hours after the quake, the girl's mother and her 10-year-old twin siblings, as well as her seven-year-old brother were pulled from rubble.

The death toll from a powerful magnitude earthquake which has hit western Turkey, reportedly, rose to 79. 

The strong quake also injured more than 962 people, the Turkish emergency authority AFAD said. 

An aftershock of 5.0 magnitude was detected in Turkey after a strong earthquake hit its western part.

Turkey has detected 410 aftershocks since October 30 earthquake.

Out of the aftershocks, 33 were more than four magnitudes.

The 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit in the Aegean Sea at a depth of 16.5 kilometres, which, reportedly, leveled six residential buildings to the ground.

In Greece, two children died and 19 were injured on Friday after a strong earthquake struck in the Aegean Sea. 

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