More than 4,300 aftershocks had hit the disaster zone since the initial quake. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA, Turkey - A teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey on Thursday, more than 10 days after an earthquake that has killed more than 42,000 people in the country and neighbouring Syria, as families of those still missing await news of their fate.
In Syria, where the earthquake has compounded a humanitarian crisis caused by 12 years of war, the reported death is toll 5,800 - a figure that has changed little in days. “Their parents are deceased,” said earthquake survivor Bayram Nacar, who stood waiting with other local men wearing masks as an excavator cleared a huge pile of shattered concrete and twisted metal rods behind the tree.
The bulk of fatalities in Syria have been in the rebel-held north-west, but rescuers say nobody has been found alive there since Feb 9 and the focus has shifted to helping survivors.
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