VIDEO Seven-month-old boy rescued after a week in the ruins Final number of dead could be over 50,000

Rescuers pulled out a seven-month-old child and an adolescent girl alive at dawn on Sunday, almost a week after the earthquake that killed more than 28,000 people in Turkey and Syria, but that number could "double", warns the United Nations "You are a miracle," is the message of a video of a 13-year-old girl pulled from the rubble in Gaziantep, Turkey, just after the critical 72 hours since the disaster, and shared on Twitter by Turkey's Anadolu Agency.

In the province of Hatay in the south, the little boy Hamza was pulled out alive, found crouched under the slab under which he had spent more than 140 hours, the IHA news agency reported at night seven month old Hamza pulled alive out of rubble in Hatay 140 hours after #TurkeyEarthquake pic.

twitter com/hcEsvIii9w — ALI MOSTAFA | Ali Mustafa (@Ali_Mustafa) February 12, 2023 A two-year-old girl, Asja, was also rescued in the same region.

In the freezing cold, rescue teams also pulled out a 70-year-old woman from under the ruins in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras with applause and shouts of joy, public television TRT Haber announced "Am I in this world," she asked when they pulled her out into the daylight.

The Turkish agency Anadolu also reported on the rescue of a 35-year-old mother and her six-year-old girl from a destroyed building in Adiyaman province According to the latest official figures, the magnitude 7.

8 earthquake killed at least 28,191 people: 24,617 in Turkey and 3,574 in Syria Double or more dead On a visit to Kahramanmaras in Turkey, the head of the UN humanitarian agency, Martin Griffiths, told sky news that the death toll would "double or even more".

"Actually, they haven't really even begun to count the dead," Griffiths said "Soon people in charge of search and rescue will give way to humanitarian agencies who will take care of the victims of the earthquake in the coming months," Griffiths said in a video on Twitter on Saturday.

In Gaziantep, about 2,000 people died, and those who were left homeless are standing in lines in sub-zero temperatures waiting for some of the hot meals prepared in solidarity by restaurants in the city The restaurant run by Burhan Cagdas distributed 4,000 free meals to the survivors.

"Our staff is in an impossible situation They themselves have victims in their own families and their houses were destroyed by them," said Burhan Cagdas, whose family has also been sleeping in the car since Monday.

But the wave of solidarity is getting stronger "We want to help", he points out.

Almost 32,000 people were mobilized for search and rescue operations in Turkey and another 8 000 members from abroad, according to the Turkish Agency for Natural Disasters.

For the first time in 35 years, the border crossing between Turkey and Armenia was opened to enable the delivery of humanitarian aid Arrest of the entrepreneur On Saturday, Austrian soldiers participating in the search and rescue stopped their work for several hours, and then the German Federal Agency for Technical Assistance (THW) and the humanitarian organization ISAR Germany did the same for security reasons.

On Saturday afternoon, two of Austria's leading search dogs resumed their search "with the protection of the Turkish military," said a spokesman for the Austrian military in Vienna Catastrophic collapse of buildings, among which many are new and should have been erected according to all earthquake-proof construction regulations instead of flattening and exposing all the negligence of both contractors and supervisors, it left almost no hope for the inhabitants to survive.

More than a dozen people in the construction sector have been arrested in Turkey after thousands of buildings collapsed, local media reported on Saturday, with more arrests expected For example, in the Diyarbakir region, one of the ten provinces affected by the disaster, 29 arrest warrants were issued on Saturday, reports the official Anadolu news agency.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 26 million people in Turkey and Syria have been affected by the disaster, of which "about five million are vulnerable," and launched an emergency appeal on Saturday to collect $42 8 million in aid.

However, aid is arriving in Turkey, but with Syria, which has been at war for 12 years, and its regime is also under international sanctions, the situation is far more complex In Syria, where the health system is dying because of the war, at least 20 health facilities in the northwest were damaged, including four hospitals.

The WHO announced that it shipped 37 tons of trauma and surgical equipment to Turkey on Thursday, and 35 tons arrived in Syria on Friday WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who arrived in Aleppo on Saturday, said his heart breaks as he watches people freeze to death without a roof over their heads, without food, water, heat or medical assistance.

Humanitarian organizations are particularly concerned about the possibility of the resurgence of cholera in Syria The Syrian government approved Friday that "humanitarian aid is being delivered to the entire country," including in rebel-held areas where 5.

3 million people are at risk of being left without shelter .