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Rescuers in Haiti used heavy equipment and their bare hands Monday to hunt for survivors under buildings flattened two days ago by a massive earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people, while an approaching storm threatened more suffering. FRANCE 24's Amélie Baron reports.
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.
The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Afghanistan continued to climb days after it turned brick and stone homes into rubble, killing 1,150 people and wounding scores more, according to the latest figures carried in state media on Friday.
A hospital in hard-hit Les Cayes, Haiti is overwhelmed with quake victims as the death toll of the Caribbean nation's powerful earthquake climbs to over 1,200.
Port-au-Prince, Aug 15 (EFE).- Haitian authorities on Sunday raised to 1,297 the death toll in the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on the weekend.Civil Protection reported that 1,054 people are known to have died in the Sud Department, another 122 in Nippes and 119 in Grand'Anse, all of these provinces on the country's slender southwestern peninsula, while another two people lost their lives in northwest Haiti.Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government on Sunday sent the beleaguered nation 30 tons of supplies, including food, medicine and potable water, to help the general populace after the powerful Saturday quake that injured at least 2,800 people. (Camera: MARÍA MONTECELOS).SHOT LIST: HUMANITARIAN AID ARRIVE IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI.
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