Videos have emerged showing the rescue of a 17-year-old teenager and 4-year-old girl in Turkey days after the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the region.
In the nearby city of Kahramanmaras, a four-year-old girl was filmed being rescued from underneath debris on Thursday. Search and rescue efforts continue with dogs on the firth day after the earthquake in Adiyaman, Turkey.On Thursday, the U.S. State Department said three U.S. citizens were among the dead in Turkey.
The New York Post also reported that a father, wife and his two children from the Queens borough of New York City were among those killed. "It is with sadness we announce that former CAIR-NY Board Member, Burak Firik, and his wife and two baby children, passed away in the earthquake in Turkey," the Council on American-Islamic Relations' New York affiliate said in a statement on Twitter.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday described the earthquake as"one of the greatest disasters our nation has faced in its history," according to The Associated Press.
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