The magnitude 6. The death toll is expected to climb. Rescue crews used sophisticated listening devices to detect boys alive in the rubble, and worked through the night to free them. Journalist Gokhan Eren said he saw at least seven boys pulled out alive in the early hours of the morning.
Meanwhile, rescue workers suddenly rejoicing and bringing out a boy who's holding his hand up and waving it around, as if he was just born," Eren told CNN. Each time a boy is freed from the twisted heap of concrete, his name is announced to a crowd of relatives. Rescuers then call for silence so they can listen for more voices, and the digging begins again.
The school -- which housed children ranging in age from 12 to 18 -- has been reduced to rubble. Rescue crews said at least 37 bodies were pulled from the boys' dormitory, which had its two top floors collapse.
Many of the boys were killed in a hallway trying to rush to safety as the building gave way. Others were killed when the ceiling came crashing down, rescuers said. The girls' dormitory was completely destroyed, and officials said they have not heard any sounds of children alive there. They have not said how many girls were housed there. Authorities said Wednesday students and two teachers were brought alive.
Another teacher died en route to the hospital. The quake struck at a. Bingol Mayor Feyzullah Karaaslan said the quake knocked out power and brought down 25 buildings in his city, about kilometers miles east of Ankara.
