KAHRAMANMARAS - Rescuers in Turkey pulled out several people alive from collapsed buildings on Monday and were digging to reach a grandmother, mother and daughter from a single family, a week after the country’s worst earthquake in modern history. With hopes of...
Rescue workers in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras said they had contact with a grandmother, mother and baby trapped in one room in a three-storey building, with a fourth person possibly in another room.
“It’s already a miracle. After seven days, they are there with no water, no food and in good condition,” she said. The quake is now the sixth most deadly natural disaster this century, behind the 2005 tremor that killed at least 73,000 in Pakistan.In Syria, the disaster hit hardest in the rebel-held north-west, leaving homeless yet again many people who had already been displaced several times by a decade-old civil war. The region has received little aid compared with government-held areas.
An HTS source in Idlib said the group would not allow any shipments from government-held areas, and that aid would be coming in from Turkey to the north. Turkish authorities have started to crack down on social media accounts making “provocative” posts viewed as spreading fear and panic among the public, the country’s police headquarters said on Monday. It said 56 people had been detained and 14 remanded in custody.
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