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...
In the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, a photo of two missing boys had been tied to a tree close to the block of flats where they lived.
More than 4,300 aftershocks had hit the disaster zone since the initial quake, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said. With much of the region’s sanitation infrastructure damaged or rendered inoperable, health authorities face a daunting task in trying to ensure that people now remain disease-free.
Aid deliveries from Turkey were severed completely in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, when a route used by the United Nations was temporarily blocked.
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