Watch: Firefighters film dramatic moment two people rescued from rubble

The father-of-two said the battle to save them, and their determination to stay alive, “will stay with me”.
Watch: Firefighters film dramatic moment two people rescued from rubble
Rescue team member Phil Irving says the devastation caused by the earthquake could be the worst he has seen since Indonesia in 2009 (PA)

British firefighters have filmed the dramatic moment they pulled a police officer and a woman from the rubble of a building in Turkey – five days after the country was devastated by an earthquake.

The footage shows search and rescue specialists in Hatay, southern Turkey, rescuing the man and woman, who had been trapped under a collapsed multi-storey building for 120 hours.

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