More than 19,000 people are now known to have been killed in the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, making it one of the deadliest disasters in a decade.
Irmak is just one of a horrifyingly large number of people killed by Monday’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake, which has devastated large swaths of Turkey and neighboring Syria.tallies from the Associated Press on ThursdayThere are few more traumatized corners of the globe that the quake could have struck than Syria’s northwest.
“One of the deadliest earthquakes this century, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, now adds to a litany of devastation,” Miliband said in a statement shared with BuzzFeed News, calling for aid to begin “skyrocketing” in order to meet the desperate need. Search and rescue efforts in the Besnaya district of Idlib, Syria, on Thursday.
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