HATAY, Turkey/DAMASCUS - The screams of people still trapped in the rubble filled the night early on Tuesday and relatives wept for their loved ones as the death toll in Turkey and in neighbouring northwest Syria rose to more than 3,800.
Temperatures fell close to freezing overnight, worsening conditions for people trapped under rubble or left homeless.
In Turkey, the death toll stood at 2,379, the government reported on Tuesday, making it the country’s deadliest earthquake since an earthquake of similar magnitude in 1999 that killed more than 17,000. More than 13,000 were reported injured in Monday’s quake. In Syria, the effects of the quake were compounded by the destruction of more than 11 years of civil war. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, preparing for a tough election in May, called the quake a historic disaster and said authorities were doing all they could.
A top United Nations humanitarian official said fuel shortages and the harsh winter weather were also creating obstacles to its response. Raed al-Saleh of the Syrian White Helmets, a rescue service in rebel-held territory known for pulling people from the ruins of buildings destroyed by air strikes, said they were in “a race against time to save the lives of those under the rubble.”
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