Article originally appeared on nypost.com.
Rescuers on Friday miraculously continued finding survivors from the earthquake that killed more than 21,500 people — including a family of six that survived in a pocket of air inside a collapsed Turkish high rise for 101 hours.
Dramatic images showed jubilant emergency crews rushing the Oktay family from the rubble of a building near Turkey’s border with Syria that was completely razed by Monday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
Mom Yasemin Oktay was photographed being surrounded by dozens of people as she was held aloft on a stretcher.
She survived with her husband and four kids by huddling together in a small pocket of air left within the collapsed high rise, according to one of the rescue workers, Murat Baygul.
A picture released by the Syrian Presidency Facebook page, shows Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (C) and first lady Asma al-Assad (R) visiting a wounded survivor of the earthquake. Syrian Presidency …
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