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Survivors still being found as Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll tops 28,000
[IsraelTimes] Rescue crews on Saturday pulled more survivors, including entire families, from toppled buildings despite diminishing hopes as the corpse count of the enormous quake that struck a border region of
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
and Syria five days ago surpassed 28,000.
Dramatic rescues were being broadcast on
That followed the rescue earlier in the day of a family of five from a mound of debris in the hard-hit town of Nurdagi, in Gaziantep province, TV network HaberTurk reported. Rescuers cheered and chanted, "God is Great!" as the last family member, the father, was lifted to safety.
The rescues came amid growing frustration over the
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important..., on a tour of quake-stricken cities, said the scope of the disaster was rare, both in terms of the size of the affected area and the number of people living there. He called the earthquake the "disaster of the century" and said it had impacted an area 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter that is home to 13.5 million people in Turkey and an unknown number in Syria.
"In some parts of our settlements close to the fault line, we can say that almost no stone was left standing," he said earlier Saturday from Diyarbakir.
Still, the day brought one astonishing rescue after another, numbering more than a dozen.
Even though experts say trapped people can live for a week or more, the odds of finding more survivors were quickly waning amid freezing temperatures. Rescuers were shifting to thermal cameras to help identify life amid the rubble, a sign that any remaining survivors could be too weak to call for help.
A large makeshift graveyard was under construction on the outskirts of Antakya on Saturday. Backhoes and bulldozers dug pits in the field on the northeastern edge of the city as trucks and ambulances loaded with black body bags arrived continuously. Soldiers directing traffic on the busy adjacent road warned motorists not to take photographs.
The hundreds of graves, spaced no more than 3 feet (a meter) apart, were marked with simple wooden planks set vertically in the ground.
A worker with Turkey’s Ministry of Religious Affairs who did not wish to be identified because of orders not to share information with the media said that around 800 bodies were brought to the cemetery Friday, its first day of operation. By midday on Saturday, he said, as many as 2,000 had been buried.
"People who are coming out from the rubble now, it’s a miracle if they survive. Most of the people that come out now are dead, and they come here," he said.
Temperatures remained below freezing across the large region, and many people have no shelter. The
The disaster compounded suffering in a region beset by Syria’s 12-year civil war, which has displaced millions of people within the country and left them dependent on aid. The fighting sent millions more to seek refuge in Turkey.
The conflict has isolated many areas of Syria and complicated efforts to get aid in. The United Nations
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said the first earthquake-related aid convoy crossed from Turkey into northwestern Syria on Friday, the day after an aid shipment planned before the disaster arrived.
The UN refugee agency estimated that as many as 5.3 million people have been left homeless in Syria.
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
and his wife have visited injured quake victims in a hospital in the coastal city of Latakia, a base of support for the Syrian leader.
Syrian state TV said Assad and his wife Asma on Saturday morning visited Duha Nurallah, 60, and her son Ibrahim Zakariya, 22, who were pulled out of rubble the night before in the nearby coastal town of Jableh.
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, arrived in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, bringing with him 35 tons of medical equipment, state news agency SANA reported. He said another plane carrying an additional 30 tons of medical equipment will arrive in the coming days.
The opposition Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said Saturday that it "is almost impossible to find people alive."
The total corpse count in Syria’s northwestern rebel-held region has reached 2,166, according to the White Helmets. The overall corpse count in Syria stood at 3,553 on Saturday, though the 1,387 deaths reported for government-held parts of the country hasn’t been updated in days.
Final death toll from Turkey-Syria quake will top 55,000, UN relief chief predicts
Turkey-Syria quake: Two women survive for days as death toll tops 24,000
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.IQ] Rescuers in
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have pulled out two women alive who were trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings for 122 hours after the region’s deadliest earthquake in two decades.
A day after His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...criticized the response of rescue and relief forces and said that they should have reacted faster to the big earthquake, the number of victims in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria neared 25,000.
The number of deaths in Turkey alone rose to 20,923 on Saturday while more than 3,500 were killed in Syria.
United Nations
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says up to 5.3 million people in Syria may be homeless after the earthquakes, while nearly 900,000 people are in urgent need of hot food in Turkey and Syria.
"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 (UNHCR) said on Friday, adding "that is a huge number and comes to a population already suffering mass displacement."
Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay told news hounds that with the efforts of 31,000 rescuers throughout the affected area, 67 people were rescued from the rubble in the last 24 hours.
He added that about 80,000 people are being treated in hospitals, while 1.05 million people have been made homeless by the earthquake and have been accommodated in temporary shelters.
"Our main goal is to ensure that they return to a normal life by delivering permanent housing to them within one year, and that they heal their pain as soon as possible," Oktay said.
Syrian state media also announced that Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
visited the affected areas and a hospital in Aleppo with his wife Asma.