A two-week-old baby girl has been pulled from the rubble of Turkey's devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake.
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Crowds cheered as the baby, her mother and grandmother were plucked from the disaster zone, spending 48 hours under the rubble, in the city of Ercis.
It was the good news story locals needed after the quake rocked the city, killing over 400 people and leaving more than a third of buildings collapsed, according to the government's emergency committee.
More than 1,200 doctors and rescue workers from across the country were sent to the region after the quake. Heavy machinery was being used to help clear rubble and find those buried beneath.
Earlier, a 19-year-old man was rescued from a collapsed six-storey building after calling for help on his mobile phone. There were also reports of two women and two children, aged 3 and 5 years, being pulled alive from the rubble.
"We won't leave any citizen in the cold," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said early Monday in the provincial capital Van.
However, as darkness fell in Ercis, protests were breaking out among families who said they had yet to be issued tents. Witnesses said there were thousands of people with no shelter.
With MCT
