A three-year-old girl has been pulled alive from the rubble 91 hours after a powerful earthquake hit Izmir in western Turkey.
Rescuers, exhausted but determined on their fourth day of round-the-clock work, had been zeroing on four buildings, supported by drones surveying the scene.
They broke out in cheers, applause and shouts of "Allahu Akbar", or "God is Greater", the moment they realised they had rescued a little girl called Ayda Gezgin.
"We have witnessed a miracle in the 91st hour," Izmir mayor Tunc Soyer tweeted.
"The miracle's name is Ayda," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tweeted moments later.
"With your smiling eyes, you have inspired new hope for us. Thank God. Get well soon, my lovely little one," the Turkish leader wrote.
In the initial confusion, Turkish officials said the girl was four years old, before realising she was only three.
She called for her mother as she was taken to a waiting ambulance in a golden foil blanket, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.
Anxious relatives and survivers, many of them spending cold night in tents a safe distance away from the ruins, broke into rapturous applause, some hugging each other and others crying.
Rescuers said they realised someone was still alive at the site last night, before painstakingly working to reach her.
"It was a child's, a female voice," said a rescue worker saidal. "My friend Ahmet saw the hand, and when we opened (the space) a bit more, Ayda's face."
He said the girl was discovered in the kitchen, in a small space created by the oven and other white goods.
"From the moment we heard her sound, it didn't matter how tired we were. It gave us energy again," he told AFP. "We were so happy."
However, the death toll from the earthquake rose to 100 this morning, the country's disaster authority said.
The 7.0 magnitude quake also injured 994 people, with 147 still in hospital.
Rescue workers in Izmir province are continuing to search tirelessly in five buildings for an unknown number of missing individuals.
The worst hit Turkish town was Bayrakli in Izmir where there was a mixture of celebration and sadness yesterday after a three-year-old girl named Elif Perincek and a 14-year-old named Idil Sirin were rescued from the rubble.
But both lost a sibling each to the disaster, which struck on Friday afternoon in the Aegean Sea.
Two teenagers on their way home from school were also killed in Greece.
Turkey has reported more than 1,460 aftershocks following the quake, including 44 that were above four in magnitude.
After dozens of buildings were damaged and the risk of repeated tremors, thousands of residents were forced to spend a fourth night in tents in Izmir.
The quake is the deadliest in Turkey this year after another disaster hit the eastern provinces of Elazig and Malatya in January, killing more than 40 people.
