But hopes of finding more people alive dim with each passing day. Read more at straitstimes.com.
leaving more than 33,000 dead, as the UN warned the toll was set to rise far higher.
A member of a British search team posted a remarkable video on Twitter on Sunday showing a rescuer crawling down a tunnel created through the rubble to find a Turkish man who had been trapped for five days in Hatay. “If we had this kind of equipment, we would have saved hundreds of lives, if not more,” said Mr Alaa Moubarak, head of civil defence in Jableh, north-west Syria.failure to ship desperately needed aidA convoy with supplies for north-west Syria arrived via Turkey, but the UN’s relief chief Martin Griffiths said much more was needed for millions whose homes were destroyed.
Bab al-Hawa is the only point for international aid to reach people in rebel-held areas of Syria after nearly 12 years of civil war, after other crossings were closed under pressure from China and Russia.
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