Turkey earthquake: Moment resident is rescued from half-collapsed building

A resident as rescued from a half-collapsed building after an earthquake struck Turkey on 6 February, the country's deadliest earthquake since a tremor near Istanbul in 1999 killed more than 17,000.

Sky News footage shows the civilian being lowered to the ground on a crane.

At least 3,700 people have died after after both earthquakes over magnitude 7 hit Turkey and Syria.

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), a high-magnitude tremor struck at 4.17am local time on Monday in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border.

The second tremor was later felt in central Turkey.

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