Rescue workers found the man some 34 hours after the quake struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 51

Rescue workers have extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 51 and injuring more than 900 people.

Ahmet Citim was pulled out from the rubble in Izmir shortly after midnight Sunday and taken to hospital. Health minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted that the man said: “I never lost my hope.”

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