Chinese rescuers help save woman from quake rubble

Members of China's official rescue team in Turkyie, working alongside local rescuers, pulled a woman out of a crumbled building in Antakya at 3:40 pm on Friday, increasing the number of survivors they have helped save to four, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

The woman was found by local rescuers while they were clearing the ruins of a flattened building with an excavator, the ministry said in a media briefing. At the request of local rescuers, Chinese rescuers reached the site and used a snake-eye life-detector to locate her. They then verbally confirmed the woman was still alive beneath the ruins, it said.

The ministry said the woman was freed from the wreckage following the joint effort of Chinese and local rescuers that lasted three hours.

Previously, the Chinese team had also helped save three women, one of whom was pregnant.