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A new-born baby and his mother have been rescued from rubble in Turkey, around 90 hours after the first of Monday’s deadly earthquakes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 10-day-old boy, named Yagiz, was retrieved from a ruined structure in the southern Hatay province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Footage showed the child being carefully taken out overnight – a sight described by local media as miraculous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hopes of finding many more survivors are diminishing, amid freezing-cold weather four days after the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, search and rescue efforts continue in both Turkey and neighbouring Syria – which was struck by the quakes as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New-born Yagiz was pictured wrapped in a thermal blanket being carried to an ambulance to receive treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His mother was brought out on a stretcher. There were no further updates immediately available over the health of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – whose teams were reportedly involved in the rescue – tweeted about the rescue, saying it happened in the town of Samandag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Footage obtained by the Reuters news agency also showed a man being retrieved from the ruins, though it was not known if he had any connection to the other two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 21,000 people have died – most of them in Turkey – after Monday morning’s initial 7.8-magnitude tremor and the hundreds of aftershocks that followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There have also been fears of a secondary catastrophe, as many people have been made homeless and are lacking shelter, water, fuel and electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turkish President Recap Tayyip Erdogan has described it as the “disaster of the century”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Opposition figures have accused Mr Erdogan of failing to prepare for the earthquake and have questioned how estimated 88bn lira ($4.6bn; \u00a33.8bn) raised from an “earthquake tax” was spent. The levy – first imposed in the wake of a massive quake in 1999 that killed more than 17,000 people – was meant to have been spent on disaster prevention and the development of emergency services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party said on Wednesday that said Mr Erdogan’s government “has not prepared for an earthquake for 20 years”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the devastation, stories of remarkable escapes or heroic rescues have been emerging over the past days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n