Medical personnel look after Ferhat Tokay, 13, after he was rescued from a collapsed building in Turkey today. Rescuers, working under floodlights, pulled the boy from the rubble of an apartment building 108 hours after Sunday's earthquake in eastern Turkey. The boy was reportedly uninjured. The quake death toll now stands at 573.

ERCIS, Turkey — A 13-year-old boy was pulled from a collapsed building without injury today, five days after Turkey’s powerful earthquake struck, and state-run TV said he survived by drinking rain water that seeped through cracks in the wreckage around him.

The boy, Ferhat Tokay, also used shoes under his head as a pillow and peered through a tiny gap in the wreckage to see when it was day or night outside, his uncle said.

Tokay was discovered early this morning, soon after rescue workers from Azerbaijan had sent the uncle and other relatives away from the site to get some rest, saying there was no chance of finding the missing boy alive.

“He didn’t even have a scratch on him!” the uncle, Sahin Tokay, told NTV television. “He was hungry on the first day, but the hunger pangs later disappeared.”

The 7.2 magnitude quake leveled about 2,000 buildings in eastern Turkey on Sunday, killing at least 573 people and leaving about 2,500 injured and thousands of homeless. Authorities say another 5,700 buildings are now unfit for habitation.

The government’s crisis management center said 187 people have been freed from the rubble alive. Search and rescue operations have ended in the provincial capital of Van, but they are continuing in Ercis, another hard-hit area.

Ferhat was working in a shoe shop on the ground floor of a multistory building in the town when the quake hit. State-run Anatolia news agency said he kept alive by drinking water that dripped to him during heavy rain.

Turkey is mostly Muslim, and in Ercis today many people held traditional Muslim prayers outdoors, in parks or in streets strewn with rubble from the earthquake.

Others prayed in tents or in the few mosques still standing, Anatolia said.

One of them was the Seyid Muhammed mosque, which Tokay and his family use. It’s only damage is a gaping crack at the foot of its minaret.

As men entered it to pray today, its imam, Selahattin Tasdemir, said: “It wouldn’t have been considered a sin to not pray today because these people are victims and in a difficult situation.”

“But their conscience wouldn’t allow it. They’re used to praying, so we prayed,” he said.

The 213-person Azerbaijani rescue team that saved Tokay is equipped with sniffer dogs and it has saved nine other people from the wreckage.

Rescue workers from many countries are delivering tents, prefabricated homes, blankets and heaters to the region.