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A WOMAN is miraculously pulled alive from rubble after 296 hours buried in the ruins of a tower block.

A couple and their young son also survived 12 days and were rescued at the scene in Antakya, Turkey.

Samir Muhammed Accar and wife Ragda were pulled from the rubble after 12 days3

Samir Muhammed Accar and wife Ragda were pulled from the rubble after 12 daysCredit: Getty

The parents were identified as Syrians Samir Muhammed Accar, 49, and wife Ragda, 40 — who had fled civil war in their homeland.

Tragically, their 12-year-old boy died of dehydration soon after being taken to hospital.

He had spent the entire time without food or water.

Footage of the rescue showed teams carrying the parents out on stretchers to a waiting ambulance.

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Beside them, medics were seen treating a child.

Rescue worker Atay Osmanov said they began frantically digging after hearing cries beyond the crushed masonry in the southern city of Antakya.

One worker yelled down: “Take a deep breath if you can hear my voice.”

Several international rescue groups have already left Turkey’s vast quake zone as hope for survivors faded.

SAVED DAD MEETS TOT

Dad Mustafa meets daughter Almile for the first time after his wife gave birth when the quake struck3

Dad Mustafa meets daughter Almile for the first time after his wife gave birth when the quake struckCredit: Reuters
Firefighter Ali rescued a cat from the wreckage and called it Enkaz - meaning 'Rubble'

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Firefighter Ali rescued a cat from the wreckage and called it Enkaz – meaning ‘Rubble’

QUAKE survivor Mustafa Avci meets his new daughter for the first time as he recovers in hospital after being pulled from rubble after 261 hours.

Wife Bilge, 33, gave birth to Almile as the quake struck on February 6.

Meanwhile, firefighter Ali Cakas, 33, called the cat he rescued Enkaz — Rubble — “because we brought it out of hell” in Gaziantep, Turkey.

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