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A 35-year-old man was rescued from under the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Turkey’s Hatay province 149 hours after the powerful earthquake struck the region, Turkish state-news agency Anadolu reported.
The man, identified as Mustafa Sarıgül, was found among the ruins of a six-story apartment building during scans.
Search and rescue teams, as well as military personnel and members of the Romanian search and rescue team, worked for five hours to save the man.
The death toll across Turkey and Syria following Monday’s earthquake stands at 28,192 as of Sunday morning.
At least 98 people arrested in Turkey over alleged looting, robbery or defrauding earthquake victims.
At least 98 people were arrested on Saturday by Turkish security forces over the alleged looting of damaged buildings, robbery or defrauding victims of last week’s devastating earthquake, Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu reported.
According to security sources, who wished to remain anonymous “due to media restrictions,” investigations were carried out into at least 42 suspects in Turkey’s southern Hatay province over claims of looting damaged buildings, Anadolu reported.
At least 40 suspects were arrested and security teams seized six guns, three rifles, jewelry, bank cards, $11,000 and 70,000 Turkish lira (around $3,700) in cash, state news reported citing the sources.
Two other people were also arrested after posing as aid workers and allegedly trying to loot six truckloads of food for quake victims in Hatay province, the agency said.
At least six people were also arrested in Istanbul over allegedly defrauding a victim of the earthquake in southern Gaziantep by phone, Anadolu said.
Elsewhere in the country, dozens of other suspects were arrested for alleged looting and robbery in quake-hit areas, Anadolu said.
The suspects had been arrested across at least eight provinces including Kahramanmaras, Hatay, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Adana, Gaziantep, and Sanliurfa, it added.
Anonymous man in US walked into Turkish embassy and donated $30 million to quake victims, Pakistani PM says.
An anonymous man in the United States has donated $30 million to earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria, according to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who tweeted the news on Saturday.
“Deeply moved by the example of an anonymous Pakistani who walked into the Turkish embassy in the US and donated $30 million for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria,” the prime minister tweeted.
“These are such glorious acts of philanthropy that enable humanity to triumph over the seemingly insurmountable odds,” Sharif added.
Anadolu Agency, one of Turkey’s state-run media channels, confirmed the news.
CNN has reached out to the embassy for comment.
