ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria - Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday (Feb 10) and dug several people out from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week's huge earthquake. The confirmed death toll from the deadliest quake in the region...
A rescuer holds baby boy Kerem Agirtas, a 20-day-old survivor who was pulled from under the rubble, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, on Feb 8, 2023.ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria - Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people out from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week's huge earthquake.
His government also approved humanitarian aid deliveries across the frontlines of the country's 12-year civil war, a move that could speed up the arrival of help for millions of desperate people. The World Food Programme said earlier it was running out of stocks in rebel-held northwest Syria as the state of war complicated relief efforts.
With anger simmering over delays in the delivery of aid and getting the rescue effort underway, the disaster is likely to play into the election, if it goes ahead. In the Samandag district of Turkey, rescuers crouched under concrete slabs and whispering "Inshallah" , carefully reached into the rubble and picked out a 10-day-old newborn.
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