Six members of the same family have been rescued after spending 101 hours buried under rubble in Turkey following the devastating earthquake.

The group managed to survive by huddling together in a small air pocket beneath a collapsed building in Iskenderun.

Earlier, a teenager was pulled alive from beneath the debris in the city of Gaziantep.

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The rescues come as hopes faded of finding more survivors four days after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the border region between Turkey and Syria, killing more than 20,000 people.

With morgues and cemeteries overwhelmed, dead bodies lie wrapped in blankets, rugs and tarpaulins in the streets of some cities.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called it “the disaster of the century”.

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Near the epicentre of the quake in Gaziantep, rescuers pulled Adnan Muhammed Korkut from the basement where had been trapped since the tremor on Monday.

The 17-year-old smiled at the crowd of friends and relatives who cried tears of joy as he was carried out and put onto a stretcher.

“Thank God you arrived,” he said, embracing his mother and others who leaned down to kiss and hug him as he was put into an ambulance.

“Thank you everyone.”

Trapped for 94 hours, the teenager said he had been forced to drink his own urine to survive.

A rescue worker, identified only as Yasemin, told him: “I have a son just like you.

“I swear to you, I have not slept for four days. I swear I did not sleep; I was trying to get you out.”

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