More than a week after the tragic earthquake that devastated much of the southeast Turkey, the emergency services still manage to save people from the wreckage. This time it was the turn of a 70-year-old female who spent 212 hours buried under the remains of a destroyed building in the city of Gaziantep.

After an intense effort by Turkish research teams, Fatma GungorAged 70, he was pulled alive from the ruins of a seven-story building and taken to hospital for medical treatment.

After the rescue, relatives of Gungor – who were waiting around the remains – hugged and thanked the search and rescue teams for bringing the woman, who was carrying almost nine days buried.

The truth is that the rescue task becomes more difficult with each passing hour, as the standard time a human being can go without food or water intake in disasters like this is 72 hours.

The earthquake has already caused more than 35,500 deaths in Turkey and more than 3,700 between the figures offered by the health authorities of the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad and those of the rebels in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo (north-west), according to various reports published in the last hours.

More miraculous rescues

Six and a half days after the earthquake devastated large regions of southeastern Turkey, rescue teams still managed to pull people alive from the rubble on Sunday. Some, even, in a surprising state of integrity.

Amidst the devastating scenery and freezing cold, tens of thousands of local and foreign rescuers work among the ruins searching for signs of life. And although time is running out according to experts, there are still survivors.

One of the last was that of an eight-year-old boy who was taken out wounded but alive in the town of Nurdagi, in the province of Gaziantep, after passing 155 hours in the rubble.

Shortly before, the teams had extracted two sisters, aged 22 and 28, from a collapsed building in Adiyaman, northeast of the epicenter, after 152 hours captured.

Another little girl, three years old, it also lasted nearly 155 hours and it was saved this Sunday in Antioquia, one of the cities most affected by the earthquake, where the historic center was practically completely destroyed.

Just an hour earlier, in the same city, a 35-year-old man walked out alive after five hours of work, as well as an 85-year-old woman, trapped for 152 hours in a 30cm spacebut safe and sound.

a seven month old baby Hamza was rescued alive more than 140 hours after the earthquake in Hatay province (southern Turkey) and teenager Esma Sultan, 13, was rescued in nearby Gaziantep, according to state media.

In the same city, a 32-year-old teacher was rescued after 140 hours in the rubble and did not hesitate to ask her rescuers for a glass of hot tea, Turkish public broadcaster TRT reported.

A 12-year-old girl in Nizip city, Gaziantep province, who had survived 147 hours under the rubble, was also rescued alive.