A FOUR-YEAR-old girl has been rescued from the rubble of a block of flats in southern Turkey today, a week after the devastating earthquake struck the region last Monday. 

Rescue teams have begun winding down the search for survivors today, as the focus switches to helping survivors who lack food and shelter.

Stories are continuing to emerge today, however, of people being found alive in the rubble seven days after the 7.8-magnitude tremor.

A four-year-old girl, named Miray, was saved from the rubble the city of Adiyaman, after being trapped for 178 hours. 

Footage from the Turkish Coal Enterprises shows the girl being attached to a stretcher and carried away by rescue workers. 

4 yaşındaki Miray depremden 178 saat sonra enkazdan sağ olarak çıkarıldı.

Son canı kurtarana kadar durmak yok!

📍Adıyaman, Bozbey Apartmanı@KIASKomur pic.twitter.com/jCPevSVGa6

— Türkiye Kömür İşletmeleri Kurumu (@tkikurumsal) February 13, 2023

A 12-year-old boy named Kaan was also pulled from the debris in southern Hatay, 182 hours after the fifth-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century, Turkish media reported.

Hatice Goz, a volunteer psychologist in Turkey’s Hatay province, today said she has been fielding “a barrage of calls” from frantic parents looking for missing children.

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