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KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey: Rescuers pulled children alive on Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the death toll surpassed 22,000 and bitter cold compounded the suffering of the homeless.

Mehmet Sunna, 44, says his hometown of Pazarcik in southern Turkey has been reduced to rubble, with two family members dying in the tragedy.

Earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are common, but the magnitude 7.8 that shook the region on 6 February at 4:17am local time is clearly impressive. To find earthquakes this strong on this particular fault, we would have to go back to the year 1114.

The Disasters Emergency Committee’s fund was boosted by donations from the King and matching funding from the UK Government.

Former Newcastle winger Christian Atsu is still missing in south-east Turkey following the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake which struck the area on Monday morning

Crouched under concrete slabs and whispering "inshallah" (God willing), rescuers carefully reached into the rubble, then passed down the line their prize - a 10-day-old newborn who survived four days with his mother in the collapsed building.

Volunteers continue for a fifth consecutive day to dig into the debris amid despair and shrinking hopes.

Rescuers pulled a woman alive out of the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey on Friday, prompting cheers from onlookers 104 hours after she was buried by the huge earthquake that wrought death and destruction across the region.

Subsidence has caused flooding, while hillsides are at risk of landslip, which mean roads may need to be rerouted and people rehomed