Survivors rescued after 278 hours under flattened buildings

BBC reported that rescue workers in Turkey have pulled at least three men from the rubble, more than 11 days after they were trapped when an earthquake hit the country.

Hakan Yasinoglu had been stuck under a flattened building the hard-hit Hatay province for 278 hours when workers reached him on Friday.

The latest rescues come as the death toll caused by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria passed 41,000 – a figure which is expected to rise dramatically.