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Speaking in the southern city of Gaziantep, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says "the number of our citizens who lost their lives in the devastation caused by the earthquake has reached 14,014 in total". Search and rescue operations are ongoing across the affected region as the combined death toll in Turkey and neighbouring Syria hits 17,100.
With hope fading to find survivors, stretched rescue teams toiled through the night in Turkey and Syria, searching for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic earthquake. The death toll rose Wednesday to more than 11,000 in the deadliest quake worldwide in more than a decade. For more on the frantic rescue and humanitarian efforts, joining us from Gaziantep, Turkey is Dr. Muhammed Zahid, CEO of Physicians Across Continents.
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.
The death toll from the quake is now at 41 thousand across both Turkey and Syria. The first batch of aid has now entered rebel-held Syria through a newly opened crossing. But the country is still in the midst of a civil war, leaving residents in the rebel-held northwest in dire need of aid. FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin reports.
Rescue teams have found a dozen people alive in Turkey, five days after buildings were flattened in parts of the country, and in neighbouring Syria, in Monday's earthquake. Field hospitals have been set up to treat the injured and mass graves are being dug in the worst hit areas.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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