But with rescues increasingly few and far between and many survivors left destitute in tent cities, residents in Turkey's quake zone expressed their anger at the Turkish government, accusing it of incompetence and tardiness in responding to last Tuesday's 7.4-magnitude quake. They then called in an Israeli team, which dug the boy free early Monday. The boy, whose father and three sisters were killed in the quake, spent more than six days alone in a dark nook under a collapsed balcony.
Doctors expect the young boy to make a full recovery.
Another earthquake survivor, a middle-aged Israeli woman, was also reported in good shape after being found alive in Cinarcik. The official count of the dead stood at 12,134 Monday, with 33,384 injured. Relief officials said the final toll from Tuesday's major quake could top 40,000 when all the bodies have been found. Meanwhile, a Turkish search team continued to comb through the rubble of a home in Golcuk on Monday, searching for a family of four. Angry neighbors brought the rescuers in after a Malaysian team abandoned the search, believing the family dead.