2-week-old baby, mother pulled alive from Turkish rubble

ERCIS, Turkey (AP) — A 2-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother were pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building on today in a dramatic rescue, 48 hours after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake toppled some 2,000 buildings in eastern Turkey.

Television footage showed rescuers in orange jumpsuits applauding as the baby, Azra Karaduman, was removed from the hulk of crushed concrete and metal.

A rescuer cradled the naked infant, who was wrapped in a blanket and handed over to a medic amid a scrum of emergency workers and media. The state-run Anatolia news agency said the baby was in good health but was flown to a hospital in Ankara.