By JUSTIN SPIKE, GHAITH ALSAYED and SUZAN FRASER
Four days after the earthquake hammered a sprawling border region that is home to more than 13.5 million people, relatives wept and chanted as rescuers pulled 17-year-old Adnan Muhammed Korkut from a basement in Turkey’s Gaziantep, near the quake’s epicenter. He had been trapped there for 94 hours, forced to drink his own urine to survive.
The building was only 600 feet from the Mediterranean Sea and narrowly avoided being flooded when the massive earthquake sent water surging into the city center. Still, the rescues Friday provided fleeting moments of joy and relief amid the misery and hardship gripping the shattered region where morgues and cemeteries are overwhelmed and bodies lie wrapped in blankets, rugs and tarps in the streets of some cities.Temperatures remain below freezing across the large region, and many people have no place to shelter.
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