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Confused, the woman asked her rescuers, "What day is it?" as she was pulled alive from the rubble after 228 hours after last week's earthquake, Turkey's official Anadolu News Agency reported on Wednesday, while another 77-year-old woman was also rescued from the rubble

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More than a dozen additional earthquake survivors have been pulled from the rubble alive in Turkey. They include six relatives who huddled in a small air pocket and a desperate teenager who grew so thirsty that he drank his own urine. Two frightened sisters were comforted by a pop song as they waited for rescuers. The unlikely rescues come more than four days after Monday’s 7.8-magnitude quake brought down thousands of buildings in southern Turkey and northern Syria. The survival stories…

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