ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, Feb 9, (Reuters) - The plight of hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria grew more desperate on Thursday, while hopes faded of many more people being found alive amid the ruins of...
The death toll from Monday’s quakes, which struck in the early morning, passed 17,000 on Thursday across both countries.
With anger simmering over the slow delivery of aid and delays in getting the rescue effort underway, the disaster is bound to play into the vote should it still go ahead. At a gas station near the town of Kemalpasa, people picked through cardboard boxes of clothes dropped off as donations. In Maras, people camped inside a bank, taping a sheet in the window for privacy. Others had set up on the grass median of a main road, heating instant soup on fires and wrapping themselves in blankets.
Turkish officials say some 13.5 million people were affected in an area spanning roughly 450 km from Adana in the west to Diyarbakir in the east. In Syria, people were killed as far south as Hama, 250 km from the epicentre.There were still some signs of hope. Turkish footage late on Wednesday showed a few more survivors being rescued, including, who was pulled from his collapsed home in Hatay, where he had remained since Monday next to his dead wife.
After facing criticism over the initial response, Erdogan said on a visit to the disaster zone on Wednesday operations were now working normally and promised no one would be left homeless.
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