Rescue workers in Turkey and Syria continued their work battling inclement weather and logistical hurdles in a race to find survivors buried under debris. The death toll from Monday’s earthquakes neared 22,000, according to officials in both countries.
from under a collapsed house in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
and British aid agencies said the mother and child were in danger of freezing to death. The groups used heavy equipment and manually moved rubble to create a tunnel for the rescue, which ended after midnight Thursday.about 93 miles from the epicenter near Gaziantep in the country’s southeast, the regional governor, Tuncay Sonel, shared onwith on-the-ground response teams, plus tips on donating to those in need.
Buildings weakened by shelling from Syrian government forces and their Russian allies were no match for the tremors of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake and its host of powerful aftershocks that brought down houses right and left, report Omar Nezhat and Sarah Dadouch.
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