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More than 20,000 people are now confirmed to have died in a devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday.
The crucial 72-hour window - in which people are most likely to be found alive - has now passed, but one rescuer said there is still a little bit of hope of finding further survivors.David O'Neill, from the UK International Search and Rescue Team, told Sky News his teams were"The way these buildings have collapsed they leave many survivable voids within them and given the time that this happened, a lot of people are wrapped up in bedding and such.
Despite families feeling frustrated by the slow rescue pace, there are cases where those trapped under the rubble are alive and being saved.Baby Helen is rescued from rubble after 68 hours and 10-year-old Mehmet is found after 65 hours, both aliveRescuers hold Kerem Agirtas, a 20-day-old survivor, who was pulled from under the rubble in Hatay.
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