A couple and their son were pulled alive from under a collapsed apartment building more than 12 days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ravaged parts of Turkey and Syria, although the child later died at a hospital, Turkish state media reported on Saturday.
A foreign search team from Kyrgyzstan rescued Samir Muhammed Accar, 49, his wife, Ragda, 40, and their 12-year-old son while digging through the rubble of the apartment building in the southern Turkish city of Antakya, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
They were removed at about 11.30am local time, or 296 hours after the February 6 quake, and quickly transferred to ambulances.
![Rescue workers pull out Samir Muhammed Accar, a Syrian migrant, from a collapsed building in Antakya, Turkey, 13 days after the quake. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/VCAXOWF47ZD7NLUX563E6LRMFU.jpg?auth=610a0e47d8bbec06bb4055220f5a5f11d9c0220bd570285e3fc9ba4b5f107790&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
TV footage showed medics fixing an IV drip to the man’s arm as he lay on a stretcher.