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ERCIS, Turkey — A 13-year-old boy was pulled from a collapsed building without injury Friday, five days after Turkey’s powerful earthquake struck, and state-run TV said he survived by drinking rain water that seeped through cracks in the wreckage around him.

The boy, Ferhat Tokay, also used shoes under his head as a pillow and peered through a tiny gap in the wreckage to see when it was day or night outside, his uncle said.

“He didn’t even have a scratch on him!” the uncle, Sahin Tokay, told NTV television. “He was hungry on the first day, but the hunger pangs later disappeared.”

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