Survivor who went viral recounts ordeal

Soner Tugtekin, 58, went viral on social media last week after he emerged from the rubble in the Turkish city of Adiyaman with a half-smoked cigarette in his mouth. 

As rescue workers pleaded with him to let go of his cigarette, Tugtekin swatted them away with the grit and confidence of a man who had escaped death. 

He said that when his lighter fluid had run out, he resorted to "smashing the batteries of the [TV remote] controller and making a fire by crashing the cables together". 

The video of Tugtekin brought hope to many, but his wife and daughter were killed by the earthquake. 

“I slept on the pavement until the fourth day, when my wife’s lifeless body was removed," he recounted.

Turkey earthquake survivor recounts how he lived off tobacco