FILE PICTURE. People sit and stand near a collapsed building, after the deadly earthquake, in Adiyaman, Turkey. February 12, 2023. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar

ISTANBUL, Feb 13 (Reuters) – A young girl named Miray was rescued from the rubble of an apartment building in the southern Turkish city of Adiyaman on Monday, 178 hours after an earthquake devastating shook the region, a minister and media said.

CNN Türk said the girl was six years old and rescuers were also close to reaching her older sister. Turkish Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoglu previously said the girl was four years old.

(Reporting by Daren Butler and Ezgi Erkoyun; Editing in Spanish by Benjamín Mejías Valencia)

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