More than 21,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Monday, officials said. Follow live updates.
Father and sons rescued from under the rubble in Turkey more than 76 hours after quake hitMembers of a rescue team work near a collapsed building in Gaziantep, Turkey on February 9.
Mithat Tabur, and his sons Ersin, 30, and Mustafa, 26, were rescued from the wreckage of an eight-story apartment building in the city's Ibrahimli suburb after search teams detected them in what was left of their living room. More than 100 people lived in their building and roughly a quarter of the residents made it out alive.
Mustafa’s high school friend, English teacher Alptekin Talanci, said Mustafa was a civil engineer working for the local government. CNN reporters met Talanci outside the collapsed building, where he had been waiting in the cold for two days, hoping his friend would come out alive.
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