KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA — International aid agencies are stepping up efforts to help millions of homeless people, many sleeping in tents, mosques, schools or cars, 11 days after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria killing more than 42,000. Two people were reported to have been pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey on Thursday (Feb 16), but such rescues have become...
Havva Kamcı cries as a search and rescue worker tells her they have not found their 11-year-old granddaughter from the rubble of their home following the deadly earthquake, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, Feb 16, 2023.KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA — International aid agencies are stepping up efforts to help millions of homeless people, many sleeping in tents, mosques, schools or cars, 11 days after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria killing more than 42,000.
Footage showed her being carried away on a stretcher covered with a thermal blanket while an emergency worker held an intravenous drip."We had prepared her grave and we asked the rescue workers to stop digging as we feared they would damage the remaining corpses under the rubble. Moments later, her voice was heard from under the ruins of the building," Kilic's brother-in-law told broadcaster CNN Turk.
For families still waiting to retrieve relatives, there is growing anger over what they see as corrupt building practises and deeply flawed urban development that resulted in thousands of homes and businesses disintegrating. Turkey has promised to investigate anyone suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings and has ordered the detention of more than 100 suspects, including developers.Across the border in Syria, the earthquake slammed a region divided and devastated by 12 years of civil war.
Deliveries from Turkey were severed completely in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, when a route used by the UN was temporarily blocked. This week, Assad granted approval for two additional crossings.
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