SANLIURFA: Rescuers in Türkiye
and Syria battled bitter cold on Tuesday in a race against time to find survivors under buildings flattened by an earthquake that killed more than 7,800 people.
The infant is the sole survivor of her immediate family, the rest of whom were killed in the rebel-held town of Jindayris.on Monday as people slept, flattening thousands of structures, trapping an unknown number of people and potentially impacting millions. Yet people in some of the hardest-hit areas said they felt they had been left to fend for themselves.
"For two days we haven't seen the state around here ... Children are freezing from the cold," he added.
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