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Milo Boyd

Girl, 4, pulled from rubble of building four days after horror earthquake in Turkey

A young girl was pulled out of the rubble of a building almost four days after it collapsed.

In remarkable footage a group of men can be seen gathered around a hole in a large pile of rock.

The rescue officials pull up the tiny body of a four-year-old girl who they gently place on a child-sized stretcher.

As they strap her on, wrap her in a blanket and provide emergency treatment, the girl shakes slightly and looks up towards the sky.

The child, named as Ayda Gezgin, survived 91 hours underneath the collapsed building in the Turkish city of Izmir.

A doctor said she had no signs of internal bleeding and her vital signs are fine, Milliyet reported.

Ayda was pulled from the rubble by rescue workers (@AFADTurkey /Twitter)

Ayda's rescue has provided a sliver of hope and light for Turks dealing with the aftermath of the powerful and deadly quake.

A rescue worker who helped lifter her to safety said: "She is a very beautiful girl.

"She was smiling very beautifully. She was smiling as if she was not in the wreckage at all."

Reacting to the rescue - which was the 107th since the quake - one man wrote on Twitter : "We had another miracle in Izmir.

She had been under the collapsed building for 91 hours (@AFADTurkey /Twitter)
Rescue workers managed to pull her to safety (@AFADTurkey /Twitter)

"I would like to express my gratitude to the rescue teams who have been giving us this happiness by working for days, day and night.

"You are hope Ayda... Welcome back, I'm glad you're here."

The death toll from Friday's earthquake in the Aegean Sea reached 100 this morning.

In Turkey's western city of Izmir 98 people died, disaster authorities said.

Rescue workers have been moving rubble all weekend (AFP via Getty Images)

Two teenagers also died on the Greek island of Samos, authorities said.

It was the deadliest quake to hit Turkey in nearly a decade.

The quake injured 994 people in Izmir, with 147 still being treated, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said on Tuesday, adding that rescuers were still combing five buildings in the search effort.

107 people have now been rescued (ISTANBUL FIRE DEPARTMENT HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

More than 3,500 tents and 13,000 beds are being used for temporary shelters in Turkey, where relief efforts have drawn in nearly 8,000 personnel and 25 rescue dogs, the agency said.

Turkey is crossed by fault lines and is prone to earthquakes.

More than 500 people were killed in a 2011 quake in the eastern city of Van, while another in January this year killed 41 people in the eastern province of Elazig.

In 1999, two powerful quakes killed 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey.

AFAD said Friday's earthquake had a magnitude of 6.6, with some 1,400 aftershocks.

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