KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey – Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble a week after an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria leaving more than...
In the devastated Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, near the epicentre of the quake, excavators dug through mountains of twisted rubble as a rescue team recovered a body from the wreckage.
“We have so far failed the people in north-west Syria. They rightly feel abandoned, looking for international help that hasn’t arrived,” Mr Griffiths said on Twitter. Bab al-Hawa is the only point for international aid to reach people in rebel-held areas of Syria after nearly 12 years of civil war, after other crossings were closed under pressure from China and Russia.
“The compounding crises of conflict, Covid, cholera, economic decline and now the earthquake have taken an unbearable toll,” Dr Tedros said a day after visiting Aleppo. He also thanked the United Arab Emirates for providing “huge relief and humanitarian aid”, with pledges of tens of millions of dollars.
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