ANTAKYA — Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble on Sunday (Feb 12), nearly a week after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, as Turkish authorities sought to maintain order across the disaster zone and began legal action over building collapses. With chances of finding more survivors growing more remote, the toll in both countries from...
A Turkish flag is seen on a pole in front of a collapsed building, as rescue continues in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey on Feb 12, 2023.ANTAKYA — Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble on Sunday , nearly a week after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, as Turkish authorities sought to maintain order across the disaster zone and began legal action over building collapses.
In Syria, the disaster hit hardest in the rebel-held northwest, leaving homeless yet again many people who had already been displaced several times by a decade-old civil war."We have so far failed the people in north-west Syria," United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths tweeted from the Turkey-Syria border, where only a single crossing is open for UN aid supplies.
On the main road into the city the few buildings left standing had large cracks or caved-in facades. Traffic occasionally halted as rescuers called for silence to detect signs of remaining life under the ruins. Building quality in a country that lies on several seismic fault lines has come into sharp focus in the aftermath of the quake.
Some affected by the quake and opposition politicians have accused the government of slow and inadequate relief efforts early on, and critics have questioned why the army, which played a key role after a 1999 earthquake, was not brought in sooner.
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