Rescuers pulled two children alive Monday from the rubble of a collapsed building in Izmir province, nearly three days after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed 83 people in Turkey and two others on a Greek island.

The Turkish government disaster management authority announced that a three-year-old girl named Elif Prinsik was under the rubble and was rescued 65 hours after the earthquake and taken to the hospital.

Turkish media broadcast scenes of the child, wrapped in a blanket, as she was evacuated, amid the applause of a group of paramedics.

"I am very happy. God bless you. I have answered my prayers and met Elif," the official Turkish TRT channel quoted the girl’s grandmother as saying.

The girl is among 106 people who were brought out alive from under the rubble of buildings destroyed or damaged by an earthquake that struck the province of Izmir in western Turkey as well as the Greek island of Samos.

Among the people who rescued Elif's mother, two sisters and brother, they came out alive on Saturday night. However, her brother died shortly after, according to TRT.

A few hours earlier, rescuers pulled another girl alive, Edel Serene, 14, from the rubble of another building, according to the Disaster Management Authority.

However, the family’s joy was not complete, as the body of Edel’s sister, named Ipek, was found under the rubble, according to Hurriyet newspaper.

The earthquake killed at least 83 people in Turkey, according to the latest toll published Monday morning. Two people died on the Greek island of Samos.

About a thousand people have been injured in Turkey, of whom more than two hundred are still in hospital. According to the Turkish authorities, 1,864 tents have been set up in the Izmir region, and to date, about five thousand people have had their homes destroyed or damaged.

And reporters at Agence France-Presse at the scene reported that rescue workers are continuing their searches Monday through the rubble, hoping to find other survivors.

From time to time, officers ask people to remain silent so that they can hear the slightest call for help from under the rubble. Some of them asked, by loudspeaker, that survivors, who may have been trapped under the rubble, try to shout to be able to locate them.