Surrounded by the stench of decaying bodies, Yasemin Yaprakci scraped her fingernails against the shattered concrete of her collapsed apartment building today, hoping to alert rescuers that she was buried under the pulverised wreckage.

A 23-year-old woman was found alive in the rubble of an apartment building in central Turkey today, seven days after the building collapsed, private NTV television reported.

RESCUE teams pulled a 16-year-old boy from the debris of a collapsed apartment building yesterday after he survived almost six days under the rubble.