Ammon News - More than nine days after a powerful quake shook Turkey and Syria, rescuers were still pulling people from the rubble, defying predictions that the time for survival had passed.

On Wednesday, Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense released video showing rescuers extricating a 77-year-old woman from debris in the city of Adiyaman on Tuesday, some 212 hours after the earthquake struck.

Then on Wednesday, another woman, identified as 45-year-old, was rescued after 222 hours in rubble in the city of Kahramanmaras, according to Turkey’s state television TRT Haber.

In the same region, emergency workers saved a 35-year-old woman believed to have been buried for around 205 hours, according to state broadcaster TRT Haber. Others were rescued too – two brothers, two men and a women – all on Tuesday, eight days after the quake.