KIRIKHAN, Türkiye: A woman died in hospital on Saturday (Feb 11) a day after she was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Türkiye, where she had been trapped for 104 hours since M
German rescuers pulled 40-year-old Zeynep Kahraman out of the rubble in the town of Kirikhan in southern Türkiye on Friday. They hailed her survival a"miracle" as search and rescue efforts in the aftermath of the region's deadliest quake in decades kept turning up more bodies.
"We have just informed the team that she has unfortunately passed away and are now processing this in the team."
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