A 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Izmir yesterday, after being buried for 33 hours following a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's Aegean coast and Greek islands. 

Turkish authorities reported more deaths yesterday, bringing the toll to 58, all in Izmir, while two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos.

The man, identified as Ahmet Citim, was rescued from one of 20 residential buildings destroyed in Izmir's Bayrakli district, which was in the process of urban transformation due to lack of earthquake resistance.

"So far, we know that 58 of our citizens were killed in the quake, and 896 people were injured," the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told reporters yesterday.

Erdogan added that the government was "determined to heal the wounds of our brothers and sisters in Izmir before the cold and rains begin."

Some 702 victims have so far been discharged from hospitals, while eight remain in intensive care units, according to Health Minister Fahrettin Koca.

Turkey is crossed by fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. In 1999, two powerful quakes killed 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey.