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Survivors continue to emerge from Turkey earthquake; death toll tops 41,000

Rescuers carry the body of a victim taken out of the rubble, in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake, in Antakya, Turkey, Feb. 17, 2023. [Reuters]

Turkish rescuers pulled a teenage boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed building 260 hours after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck southeast Turkey and Syria, Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported Friday.

Fourteen-year-old Osman Halebiye was taken to a hospital in Antakya.

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