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Added on the 12/03/2023 11:54:21 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Rescue workers, residents, and journalists gather in front of a collapsed building in Antakya as a new 6.4 magnitude earthquake shook the southern Turkish province of Hatay and northern Syria following the 6 February tremor that killed nearly 45,000 people in both countries. IMAGES
The window for finding more survivors from the Syria-Turkey earthquakes grows smaller each day. Meanwhile, efforts to get crucial aid and resources to rebel-held Syrian regions face huge difficulties.
Search and rescue teams battle the bitter cold in a race against time to find survivors under buildings flatted by an earthquake that has killed more than 7,800 people.
French rescuers work on the site of a collapsed building following a deadly earthquake in Osmaniye, southern Turkey, in the aftermath of the disaster that has hit the country and neighbouring Syria and whose death toll has continued to rise to over 6,200. IMAGES
More than 8,000 people have been pulled from the debris in Turkey alone, and some 380,000 have taken refuge in government shelters or hotels, said Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay. They huddled in shopping malls, stadiums, mosques and community centers, while others spent the night outside in blankets gathering around fires. Many took to social media to plead for assistance for loved ones believed to be trapped under the rubble — and Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency quoted Interior Ministry officials as saying all calls were being “collected meticulously” and the information relayed to search teams. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Kahramanmara in Turkey Nadia Massih reports.
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