It took rescue workers five painstaking hours to save her life. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The death toll across Turkey and Syria has climbed above 21,000, but the father felt nothing but relief.
Hopes rose after rescuers found three people alive in the same building, only a floor above Melda. So they and her panicked father went looking, determined to find the missing girl.The man leading her rescue effort was Suleyman, one of a group of Black Sea miners who headed south to help. Then, all of a sudden, they reached the cold, bruised, young girl, but very much alive, and gently brought her to a waiting ambulance.
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