Deadly earthquake exacerbates suffering of displaced Syrians
1 year, 11 months ago

Deadly earthquake exacerbates suffering of displaced Syrians

Associated Press  

DARKUSH, Syria — A steady stream of injured flowed into an overwhelmed hospital in the town of Darkush, in rebel-held northwestern Syria on Monday, after a deadly earthquake struck the region. With the added blow of the earthquake, he said, “We’ve had at least three or four hospitals that I know of that have been put out of service.” The powerful 7.8 magnitude quake that struck before dawn on Monday wreaked new damage and suffering in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave after years of fighting and bombardment. “This disaster will worsen the suffering of Syrians already struggling with a severe humanitarian crisis,” Carsten Hansen, the director for the Middle East at the Norwegian Refugee Council, said in a statement. “Millions have already been forced to flee by war in the wider region and now many more will be displaced by disaster.” In the hospital in Darkush in western Idlib, Abdel Hamid said his family were sleeping in their apartment when they were roused by powerful, prolonged shaking. The Syrian American Medical Society, which runs hospitals in northern Syria and southern Turkey, said in a statement that its facilities are “overwhelmed with patients filling the hallways” and called urgently for “trauma supplies and a comprehensive emergency response to save lives and treat the injured.” The opposition territory in the northwest corner of Syria has held out for years even after Syrian government forces retook most rebel-held areas around the country.

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Earthquake strikes Syria, rattling nerves amid memories of last year’s deadly temblor
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Earthquake strikes Syria, rattling nerves amid memories of last year’s deadly temblor

Associated Press  

DAMASCUS, Syria — An earthquake shook central Syria late Monday, local authorities said, causing no major damages but rattling the nerves of residents who remembered last year’s devastating temblor that struck northern Syria and Turkey. Syria’s National Center for Earthquakes said a 5.5 magnitude quake struck 28 kilometers east of the city of Hama at 11:56 p.m. local time. Local …

Aid officials say Syria conditions dire, months after quake
1 year, 8 months ago

Aid officials say Syria conditions dire, months after quake

Associated Press  

Three months after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, living conditions remain dire in Syria’s rebel-held northwest, aid officials who visited the region said Wednesday. Patrick Mutai, a coordinator on shelters at the U.N. refugees agency, said that before the quake, some 2 million people in Syria needed assistance, including 1.8 million people who live in camps. “The earthquake …

A month after quake, multitudes in Turkey and Syria still need shelter, sanitation
1 year, 10 months ago

A month after quake, multitudes in Turkey and Syria still need shelter, sanitation

LA Times  

A family keeps warm next to a fire amid a huge field of earthquake debris in Antakya, Turkey, on Feb. 15. One month after a powerful earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, hundreds of thousands of people still need shelter and sanitation, and an appeal for $1 billion to assist survivors is only 10% funded, hampering efforts to tackle …

Key points one month after Turkey-Syria earthquake
1 year, 10 months ago

Key points one month after Turkey-Syria earthquake

Hindustan Times  

A massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked huge swathes of Turkey and parts of Syria on February 6, killing more than 50,000 people in both countries. One month on, Turkey is facing the daunting task of rebuilding flattened cities, with tens of thousands buried and many survivors barely subsisting in tents or containers. Loss The country's death toll from the quake has …

Photos show double blow of war and earthquakes in regime-held Syria
1 year, 10 months ago

Photos show double blow of war and earthquakes in regime-held Syria

NPR  

Photos show double blow of war and earthquakes in regime-held Syria Enlarge this image toggle caption Aya Batrawy/NPR Aya Batrawy/NPR JABLEH, Syria — Last month's earthquakes were catastrophic for parts of Turkey and Syria, but this is only the latest crisis to upend life here. Enlarge this image toggle caption Aya Batrawy/NPR Aya Batrawy/NPR Enlarge this image toggle caption Aya …

UN says at least 50,000 killed in Turkey and Syria quakes
1 year, 10 months ago

UN says at least 50,000 killed in Turkey and Syria quakes

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria have killed at least 50,000 people with many more injured, tens of thousands still missing and hundreds of thousands homeless, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday. Martin Griffiths told the U.N. Security Council that three weeks after the magnitude 7.8 quake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria, followed by …

U.N. says at least 50,000 killed in Turkey and Syria quakes
1 year, 10 months ago

U.N. says at least 50,000 killed in Turkey and Syria quakes

LA Times  

The devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria last month have killed at least 50,000 people with many more injured, tens of thousands still missing and hundreds of thousands homeless, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday. Martin Griffiths told the U.N. Security Council that three weeks after a magnitude 7.8 quake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria, followed by strong …

New quake brings more losses in Turkey and Syria
1 year, 10 months ago

New quake brings more losses in Turkey and Syria

LA Times  

People wait to cross into Syria at a border checkpoint near the town of Antakya in southeastern Turkey on Feb. 21, 2023. The epicenter of the magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck Monday evening was in the Defne district of Turkey’s Hatay province, one of the worst-hit areas in the Feb. 6 magnitude 7.8 quake that killed nearly 46,000 people in …

New earthquake causes further devastation in Turkey, Syria
1 year, 10 months ago

New earthquake causes further devastation in Turkey, Syria

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake …

Death toll rises to eight from new Turkey-Syria earthquake
1 year, 10 months ago

Death toll rises to eight from new Turkey-Syria earthquake

The Hindu  

The death toll in Turkey and Syria rose to eight in a new and powerful earthquake that struck two weeks after a devastating temblor killed nearly 45,000 people, authorities and media said Tuesday. Turkey’s disaster management authority said six people were killed and 294 others were injured with 18 in critical condition after Monday’s 6.4-magnitude quake. The majority of deaths …

Fear, panic as new earthquakes hit Turkey-Syria border, killing 6
1 year, 10 months ago

Fear, panic as new earthquakes hit Turkey-Syria border, killing 6

Al Jazeera  

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region, killing at least six people, two weeks after the area was devastated by quakes that killed more than 47,000 people in both countries. Syria’s state news agency, SANA, reported six people were injured in Aleppo from falling debris, while the mayor of Hatay said several buildings had collapsed, trapping people inside. …

Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake
1 year, 10 months ago

Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake

Associated Press  

ISTANBUL — As the search and rescue effort for buried survivors of the Feb. 6 earthquake started to wind down in Turkey, demolition teams have moved in to clear the mounds of rubble left by the worst disaster in modern Turkish history. DEATH TOLL IN TURKEY RISES SLIGHTLY The number of confirmed deaths in Turkey due to the earthquake rose …

‘Buried alive’: Syrians recount losing family in the earthquakes
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Buried alive’: Syrians recount losing family in the earthquakes

Al Jazeera  

According to the Syria Civil Defence, 2,274 people died in Syria’s rebel-held northwest region, with more than 12,400 others wounded. “I’m just relieved to have someone left for me in this world.” Absence of heavy equipment Al-Mousa is one of many who lost entire families to the 7.8 and 7.6 magnitude quakes that struck Turkey and Syria. “The absence of …

Survivors dug out of rubble in Turkey, but many families pray to find a body to mourn
1 year, 10 months ago

Survivors dug out of rubble in Turkey, but many families pray to find a body to mourn

India Today  

Survivors were still being dug out of the rubble in earthquake-hit Turkey, but for many grieving families their only hope is that the remains of their loved ones will be found so that they can mourn at their grave site. to deliver the body to the family," said bulldozer operator Akin Bozkurt as his machine clawed at the rubble of …

Turkey earthquake death toll passes 45,000; many still missing in flattened apartments
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey earthquake death toll passes 45,000; many still missing in flattened apartments

The Hindu  

More than 45,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, and the toll is expected to soar with some 2,64,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing in the country's worst modern disaster. Mosques around the world on Friday performed absentee funeral prayers for the dead in Turkey and Syria, many of whom could …

Double whammy for quake-hit Syria as 53 killed in suspected IS attack: Report
1 year, 10 months ago

Double whammy for quake-hit Syria as 53 killed in suspected IS attack: Report

India Today  

Syria, already wrecked by over a decade of civil war and currently dealing with a devastating earthquake, received another blow as 53 people were killed on Friday in a suspected IS attack, state media reported. According to local media reports, 53 civilians were killed in an attack in Syria's central desert province of Homs. State media blamed jihadist militant group …

Turkey and Syria Earthquake Survivor Stories
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey and Syria Earthquake Survivor Stories

The Hindu  

The catastrophic earthquake that initially took place on February 6, 2023 and its aftershocks have flattened the cities and towns in Turkey and Syria. Rescue workers carry Ergin Guzeloglan, 36, to an ambulance after pulling him out from a collapsed building five days after the earthquake, in Hatay, southern Turkey, on February 11, 2023. Rescue workers hand over Yigit Cakmak, …

Syrian refugees return home from Turkey after quake devastation
1 year, 10 months ago

Syrian refugees return home from Turkey after quake devastation

Al Jazeera  

Syrians are hoping conditions in their war-ravaged homeland are better than quake-hit Turkey. Bab al-Hawa, Syria – Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Turkey who survived last week’s earthquakes are returning to their war-torn homeland after once again losing everything. “At Bab al-Hawa, we are facilitating the entry of our Syrian people coming from Turkey … by giving them papers proving …

Key developments in the aftermath of Turkey, Syria quakes
1 year, 10 months ago

Key developments in the aftermath of Turkey, Syria quakes

Associated Press  

ANTAKYA, Turkey — The earthquakes that killed more than 39,000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria produced more grieving and suffering along with extraordinary rescues and appeals for aid. Here’s a look at key developments Wednesday from the aftermath of the earthquakes: DEFYING ODDS AFTER NINE DAYS A woman and her two children – a boy and a girl …

Anger toward Turkey's Syrian refugees grows after earthquake
1 year, 10 months ago

Anger toward Turkey's Syrian refugees grows after earthquake

LA Times  

It was on the third day after the devastating earthquake demolished his home and almost killed him and his family that Basel, a 31-year-old Syrian refugee living in Turkey, was able to find an empty plot of land to pitch a tent as a temporary shelter for his family. “They started breaking up the tent, shouting at us until we …

Gunmen storm hospital of newborn saved from quake in Syria
1 year, 10 months ago

Gunmen storm hospital of newborn saved from quake in Syria

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Gunmen stormed a Syrian hospital that is caring for a baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home, and the attackers beat the facility’s director, a hospital official said Tuesday. The official denied reports on social media that the Monday night attack was an attempt to kidnap the infant named Aya — Arabic …

Rescuers continue to dig out people week after Turkey earthquake
1 year, 10 months ago

Rescuers continue to dig out people week after Turkey earthquake

Firstpost  

Antakya/Elbistan, Turkey: Rescuers in Turkey pulled out several people alive from collapsed buildings on Monday and were digging to reach a grandmother, mother and daughter from a single family, a week after the country’s worst earthquake in modern history. The rescue phase is “coming to a close”, with urgency now switching to providing shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care, United …

Search for earthquake survivors enters final hours in Turkey
1 year, 10 months ago

Search for earthquake survivors enters final hours in Turkey

The Hindu  

The desperate search for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria entered its final hours Monday as rescuers using sniffer dogs and thermal cameras surveyed pulverized apartment blocks for any sign of life a week after the disaster. In other developments, Syria’s president agreed to open two new crossing points from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest to deliver desperately needed …

Rising toll makes quake deadliest in Turkey’s modern history
1 year, 10 months ago

Rising toll makes quake deadliest in Turkey’s modern history

LA Times  

Rescue workers pull out survivor Hatice Akar from a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, more than a week after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Tuesday that more than 35,000 people have died in Turkey as a result of last week’s earthquake, making it the deadliest such disaster since the country’s founding 100 years ago. …

Newborn saved from rubble in quake-hit Syria in good health
1 year, 10 months ago

Newborn saved from rubble in quake-hit Syria in good health

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — A baby girl born under the rubble of her family’s home in northern Syria after last week’s devastating earthquake was in good health Monday and being breast-fed by the wife of the director of the hospital where she is being cared for, her doctor said. Dr. Hani Maarouf, a pediatrician at Cihan Hospital in the northern Syrian city …

After quake, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid, rebuild
1 year, 10 months ago

After quake, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid, rebuild

Associated Press  

ATAREB, Syria — After years of war, residents of areas in northwest Syria struck by a massive earthquake are grappling with their new and worsening reality. Almost one week after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northern Syria and neighboring Turkey, the United Nations has acknowledged an international failure to help Syrian quake victims. “My duty and our obligation is …

After the earthquakes, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid
1 year, 10 months ago

After the earthquakes, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid

Al Jazeera  

After years of war, residents in northwest Syria affected by the massive earthquakes are grappling with their new and worsening reality. One week after the devastating earthquakes struck northern Syria and neighbouring Turkey, the United Nations has acknowledged an international failure to help Syrian quake victims. In Atareb, a town that Syrian rebels still hold after years of fighting government …

Rescue phase ‘comes to a close’ in Turkey-Syria quake disaster
1 year, 10 months ago

Rescue phase ‘comes to a close’ in Turkey-Syria quake disaster

Al Jazeera  

Stories of miraculous rescues flooded the airwaves in recent days, but tens of thousands of dead have also been found with the toll expected to sharply rise. Rescuers saved a 13-year-old boy from under a collapsed building a week after Turkey’s deadliest modern-day earthquake killed tens of thousands of people as the chances of finding other survivors dwindled. In the …

Earthquake piles misery on war-ravaged Jandaris in Aleppo region
1 year, 10 months ago

Earthquake piles misery on war-ravaged Jandaris in Aleppo region

Al Jazeera  

Jadaris, Syria – In Jandaris, in northwest Syria’s Aleppo province, residents scrambled to find and pick up remnants of their lives from between mounds of concrete and mangled metal. The civil war in Syria had already left its mark on the residents and internally displaced persons who took shelter in northwest Syria, but the deadly earthquakes that hit the region …

Survivors in Turkey still being found 5 days after quake, as death toll tops 28,000
1 year, 10 months ago

Survivors in Turkey still being found 5 days after quake, as death toll tops 28,000

LA Times  

Ergin Guzeloglan, 36, is carried to an ambulance after being pulled from the rubble of a building in Hatay, Turkey, on Saturday. Rescue crews in Turkey on Saturday pulled more survivors, including entire families, from toppled buildings despite diminishing hopes as the death toll of last week’s enormous quake that struck a border region of Turkey and Syria surpassed 28,000. …

Five million may be homeless in Syria after quake: UN
1 year, 10 months ago

Five million may be homeless in Syria after quake: UN

Al Jazeera  

UN official in Syria says the ‘crisis within a crisis’ is also making the delivery of aid more difficult. “As many as 5.3 million people in Syria may have been left homeless by the earthquake,” Sivanka Dhanapala, the Syria representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said on Friday. “That is a huge number and comes to a population …

Turkey-Syria earthquake victims in race to survive
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey-Syria earthquake victims in race to survive

Al Jazeera  

The sound of hurrying hands and heavy equipment working to find signs of life continues more than six days since two major earthquakes struck the southeastern region of Turkey along the border with Syria on February 6. Oussama al-Hussein, a coordinator with a healthcare NGO working in the area, told Al Jazeera that rescuers can hear voices under the rubble, …

Turkey and Syria rescuers persist as death toll passes 28,000
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey and Syria rescuers persist as death toll passes 28,000

Al Jazeera  

Rescue operations impeded by insecurity in some areas as police in Turkey arrest dozens for looting. Reporting from Antakya, Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith said that despite the overwhelming level of destruction in the capital of Turkey’s Hatay province, there was still a glimmer of hope. “It means that, from now on, the people who are involved in looting or kidnapping …

Rescuers rejoice as more survivors emerge from rubble; toll in Turkey-Syria earthquake nears 24,000
1 year, 10 months ago

Rescuers rejoice as more survivors emerge from rubble; toll in Turkey-Syria earthquake nears 24,000

The Hindu  

Six relatives huddled in a small air pocket, day after day. These earthquake survivors were among more than a dozen people pulled out of the rubble alive Friday after spending over four days trapped in frigid darkness following the disaster that struck Turkey and Syria. The unlikely rescues, coming so long after Monday’s 7.8-magnitude quake brought down thousands of buildings, …

Turkey-Syria quake: 5 days on, search for survivors continues; toll nears 24,000
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey-Syria quake: 5 days on, search for survivors continues; toll nears 24,000

Hindustan Times  

Rescuers pulled out children Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the toll approached 24,000 and a winter freeze compounded the suffering for nearly one million people estimated to be in urgent need of food. - The 7.8-magnitude quake early on February 6 has killed more than 20,000 people in Turkey and war-ravaged Syria, according to officials and …

First war, now earthquake: Many Syrians displaced again
1 year, 10 months ago

First war, now earthquake: Many Syrians displaced again

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Living for years in a tent camp for displaced people in Syria’s rebel-held northwest, Ali Abu Yassin used to envy friends and relatives who had brick walls around them and solid ceilings over their heads. The situation was turned on its head after Monday’s devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing more than 23,000 people, collapsing …

Turkey, Syria quake: Nine lakh people battle hunger, winter; death toll nears 23,000
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey, Syria quake: Nine lakh people battle hunger, winter; death toll nears 23,000

New Indian Express  

The stench of death hung over Turkey's eastern city of Kahramanmaras -- the epicentre of the first 7.8-magnitude tremor that upturned millions of lives in a remote region filled with people displaced by war in the pre-dawn hours of Monday. Starting from scratch A group of Turkish Black Sea coast coal miners -- experts in rescuing their own colleagues -- …

Turkey’s catastrophic earthquake puts Syria in the spotlight
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey’s catastrophic earthquake puts Syria in the spotlight

Al Jazeera  

The Take looks at why it has been harder for aid to reach northern Syria. Emergency aid is pouring into southeastern Turkey after Monday’s earthquakes, but why is it so much harder for aid to reach northern Syria? In this episode: Ammar, NGO worker living in Gaziantep, Turkey Emad, NGO worker living in Gaziantep Alper Ilki, president of the Turkish …

Syria orphans from quake taken in by overwhelmed relatives
1 year, 10 months ago

Syria orphans from quake taken in by overwhelmed relatives

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — A Syrian baby girl whose mother gave birth to her while trapped under the rubble of their home during this week’s devastating earthquake now has a name: Aya, Arabic for “a sign from God.” With her parents and all her siblings killed, her great-uncle will take her in. At one hospital in northwest Syria, a red-haired 7-year-old girl, …

Death Toll In Turkey-Syria Earthquake Exceeds 20,000
1 year, 11 months ago

Death Toll In Turkey-Syria Earthquake Exceeds 20,000

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey — Rescue workers made a final push Thursday to find survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria that rendered many communities unrecognizable to their inhabitants and led the Turkish president to declare it “the disaster of the century.” The death toll topped 20,000. A 17-year-old girl emerged alive in Adıyaman, and a 20-year-old was …

Death toll rises to over 16,000 in Turkey, Syria quake
1 year, 11 months ago

Death toll rises to over 16,000 in Turkey, Syria quake

The Hindu  

Freezing temperatures deepened the misery on February 9 for survivors of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 16,000 people, as rescuers raced to save countless people still trapped under rubble. The death toll from February 6th’s 7.8-magnitude quake is expected to rise sharply as rescue efforts pass the 72-hour mark that disaster experts consider the …

Scenes of devastation as Turkey, Syria quake kills thousands
1 year, 11 months ago

Scenes of devastation as Turkey, Syria quake kills thousands

Associated Press  

With the death toll climbing after the deadliest earthquake in over a decade brought massive destruction to parts of Turkey and Syria, rescue crews are holding fast to an increasingly slim hope of finding survivors. This gallery shows the most compelling scenes from a devastating earthquake that hit southeast Turkey and northern Syria on Monday. Search teams from around the …

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Updates: Erdogan Says Country Had Problems with Initial Response as Death Toll Over 11,200
1 year, 11 months ago

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Updates: Erdogan Says Country Had Problems with Initial Response as Death Toll Over 11,200

News 18  

The death toll from a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria rose above 11,200 as rescuers raced to save survivors trapped under debris in the winter cold. In remote towns of Turkey, the rescue teams are stretched thin and in war-torn northwestern Syria, which also has faced massive devastation, entire hospitals have collapsed. The World Health Organization has warned …

Turkey, Syria quake deaths near 12,000
1 year, 11 months ago

Turkey, Syria quake deaths near 12,000

The Hindu  

The death toll from a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria rose above 11,700 on Wednesday as rescuers raced to save survivors trapped under debris in the winter cold. The White Helmets leading efforts to rescue people buried under rubble in rebel-held areas of Syria have appealed for international help in their “race against time”. Children pulled from the …

Turkey, Syria Earthquake: These Rescue Videos Instill Hope Amidst The Deadliest of Times
1 year, 11 months ago

Turkey, Syria Earthquake: These Rescue Videos Instill Hope Amidst The Deadliest of Times

News 18  

More than 8,000 people have succumbed to death after a massive earthquake ‘knocked’ down south-east Turkey and Syria on Monday. One such video shared on Twitter showed the Israeli rescue team managing to save three people stuck under the wreckage while the other one showed a cat being released from under a heavy object that might have fallen on it …

Turkey, Syria earthquake: Why the situation in Syria is being called a ‘crisis within a crisis’
1 year, 11 months ago

Turkey, Syria earthquake: Why the situation in Syria is being called a ‘crisis within a crisis’

Firstpost  

“It’s a crisis within a crisis.” That’s how El-Mostafa Benlamlih, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator in Syria, described the situation in Syria after the 7.8-strong magnitude earthquake struck the border areas of Turkey and Syria on Monday morning. These areas were already struggling to rebuild vital infrastructure heavily damaged by continual aerial bombardment during the country’s civil war, which the …

Infrastructure to blame for high Syria earthquake death toll
1 year, 11 months ago

Infrastructure to blame for high Syria earthquake death toll

Al Jazeera  

Jinderes, Syria – More than 50 hours since two devastating earthquakes struck northwestern Syria and southern Turkey, civil defence members and rescue teams are still working around the clock in an attempt to rescue people still stuck under the collapsed buildings. “The first reason for the quick collapse of the buildings in the Idlib and Aleppo countrysides is the violent …

Photos: Syrians in quake-hit Gaziantep displaced again
1 year, 11 months ago

Photos: Syrians in quake-hit Gaziantep displaced again

Al Jazeera  

Gaziantep, Turkey – For many Syrians living in Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey, the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday have awakened traumatic memories of the 12-year war in their homeland. “We thought that living on the other side of the border would bring us to safety,” said Ahmad al-Rifai, 21, originally from Aleppo. “But we found ourselves reliving …

Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 7,800 as rescuers battle cold
1 year, 11 months ago

Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 7,800 as rescuers battle cold

The Hindu  

Rescuers in Turkey and Syria battled bitter cold Tuesday in a race against time to find survivors under buildings flattened by an earthquake that killed more than 7,800 people. But some extraordinary survival tales have emerged, including a newborn baby pulled alive from rubble in Syria, still tied by her umbilical cord to her mother who died in Monday’s quake. …

Turkey, Syria earthquakes toll crosses 7,800; cold, damaged roads hit rescue ops
1 year, 11 months ago

Turkey, Syria earthquakes toll crosses 7,800; cold, damaged roads hit rescue ops

Hindustan Times  

The death in the earthquakes which ravaged Turkey and Syria has killed more than 7,800. Out of these, 5,894 people have lost their lives in Turkey alone where a three-month-long emergency has been declared by president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. There are fears that the toll could mount higher, with the World Health Organisation officials predicting that close to 20,000 people …

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