WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Children are pulled alive from underneath collapsed buildings in Syria and Turkey as rescuers race against time to find survivors of the devastating earthquake
Ayla, standing by a pile of rubble where an eight-storey building once stood, said she had driven to Hatay from Gaziantep on Monday in search of her mother. Rescuers from the Istanbul fire department were working in the ruins.Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said 5,775 buildings had been destroyed in the quake and that 20,426 people had been injured.
In Geneva, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said: "The earthquakes ... may have killed thousands of children." Syrian refugees in northwest Syrian and in Turkey were among the most vulnerable people affected, Elder said.In the Syrian city of Hama, Abdallah al Dahan said funerals for several families were taking place on Tuesday.
"There are lot of efforts by our teams, but they are unable to respond to the catastrophe and the large number of collapsed buildings," group head Raed al-Saleh said.
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