VIDEO: Watch: “Where’s My Mom?” asks a child as she is pulled from the rubble of Turkey

“Where is my mother ?” A girl asked rescuers after being pulled alive from rubble caused by a devastating earthquake on Monday morning.

Search and emergency rescue teams from around the world poured into Turkey and Syria on Tuesday as rescuers working in freezing temperatures dug – sometimes with their bare hands – into the remains of buildings flattened by a powerful earthquake.

But with the damage spread over a wide area, the massive relief operation often struggled to reach the devastated towns, and the voices crying out from the rubble died down.

“We could hear their voices, they were calling for help,” said Ali Silo, whose two relatives could not be saved in the Turkish town of Nurdagi.

In the end, it fell to Silo and other residents to recover the bodies and those of two other victims.

To learn more, watch the video above.