ALIVE AFTER 133 YEARS

HE is a picture of hope amid the devastation and despair.

- PATRICK HILL

A two-year-old boy is plucked from the rubble alive, 133 hours after being buried in Monday's earthquake.

Aliye Dagli is one of several children who have survived for five days against all odds. The official death toll is now 21,848 in Turkey and 3,553 in Syria but the United Nations warned the number could double.

Also in Turkey's Hatay province, 35-year-old Ozlem Yilmaz and her sixyear-old daughter Hatice were found alive in the ruins after 117 hours.

And after 119 hours buried in Kahramanmaras, Kamil Can Agas, 16, asked his rescuers: "What day is it?" In the same ruined city, a man was pictured smiling yesterday as he was reunited with his cat.

Near the epicentre in Nurdagi, a mother and father, their two daughters and son were all pulled out of the remains of their home after 129 hours trapped.

Havva Aslan and daughters Fatmagul and Zeynep were the first members of the family to emerge.