Rescuers managed to pull out twins from under the rubble of a collapsed building in Gaziantep, Turkey, on February 7.

Footage filmed in Sehitkamil shows the moment the toddlers were both out from the debris. Some of the rescuers are heard laughing with joy as they lay their eyes on the twins covered in dust.

"A miracle is coming," one man is heard saying just before the boy's twin sister was removed.

The Turkish Police Service said in a statement: "Twin children were rescued about 40 hours after the wreckage of a collapsed building in Gaziantep. Together we are strong."

Local media has named the children as 18-month-old Amine Elcin and her twin brother Ahmet Erbay. Their parents, mum Pinar Karapirli and dad Ibrahim Karapirli, were also pulled from the rubble alive.

The toddlers were both taken to hospital for medical checks.

This footage was filmed and produced 7 February 2023.

Rescuers pull out twin toddlers under the rubble in Gaziantep, Turkey on Tuesday. Ahmet Erbay, and his twin sister Amine Elcin, were sent to the hospital.

Footage - filmed in Sehitkamil, Gaziantep Province - shows rescue workers desperately fighting their way through the concrete and steel with their hands. Using only torchlight, they locate signs of life under the tonnes of rubble and shout for joy when one of the tots is hoisted up, covered in concrete dust. As the boy blinks at the scene around him, rescuers strap him into a stretcher. One person can be heard shouting: "A miracle is coming." Moments later, the boy's twin sister emerged from the debris of the shattered apartment block.As she is taken to safety, a rescue worker strips off his own thermal hi-vis jacket to wrap her in it. The pair were taken to hospital for medical checks.

The Turkish Police Service later dubbed them the "miracle twins". It said in a statement: "Twin children were rescued about 40 hours after the wreckage of a collapsed building in Gaziantep. Together we are strong."

Local media reported that rescue workers had started sifting through the rubble after hearing survivors still alive underneath. The brave tots were named in reports as 18-month-old Amine Elcin and her twin brother Ahmet Erbay. Not only were the twins saved but so were their parents, mum Pinar Karapirli and dad Ibrahim Karapirli. They, too, were taken to hospital after they were pulled from the rubble alive.

As well as Gaziantep, nine more of Turkey's 81 provinces have been affected by the double earthquake - of magnitudes 7.8 and 7.6 - that first struck the country early on 6th February. It has killed 6,234 and injured 37,011 in Turkey, according to the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority.
The total death toll now exceeds 8,764, with more than 2,530 dead in Syria.
World Health Organization officials have warned that it could reach 20,000.