Ankara, Europe Brief News- A dog has been found by a rescue team in Hatay, Turkey, 23 days after devastating earthquakes hit the region.
The Siberian Husky was rescued from the rubble, exhausted but alive.
More than 50,000 people were killed in southern Turkey and northern Syria and thousands more remain missing.
The Siberian Husky was rescued from the rubble, exhausted but alive. The dog, Alex, was heard by chance as aid teams scouted an area near Antakya for temporary shelters.
After an “intense” rescue effort, a local resident told Demiroren News Agency, Alex was pulled out, looking weak and shocked in footage of the operation shared by the agency.
A volunteer with Turkey’s Animal Rights Federation told the state-run Anadolu News Agency that Alex had lost a significant amount of weight, but was otherwise in surprisingly good health.
He was brought to a veterinary field hospital, where he was filmed in an apparently much happier state under the care of volunteers, who showered him with scratches and pats.
The dog was discovered by a rescue team in Hatay on 28 February after surviving more than three weeks underneath a collapsed building.
Footage shows the pooch licking the face of one of the rescuers after the rescue.
The dog then received treatment at a local rescue centre where volunteers cared for him.
He was suffering from exhaustion and had lost weight but was in otherwise good health.
