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Earthquake in Turkey and Syria Turkey cries under the rubble: "We have to find the living"
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Rescue teams in Turkey and Syria continued to work around the clock to find survivors from the rubble of Monday's powerful earthquake, which has left more than 16,000 dead and 60,000 injured.
For three days and three nights since the 7.8 magnitude quake, thousands of first responders worked in
freezing temperatures
to find survivors under collapsed buildings on both sides of the border
. Tens of thousands are believed to have lost their homes.
As the hours go by,
frustration and anger also grows at the scant aid that reaches some areas
located in difficult-to-reach areas or affected by geopolitical conflicts in the area.
"Where is the State? Where is it?"
Ali despaired in the Turkish city of
Kahramanmaras, at the epicenter of the earthquake
, that he still hoped to find his brother and his niece alive.
Aid to Syria is a sensitive issue
for many Western countries.
Although sanctioned by Brussels, Bashar al-Assad's government sent a formal request for help to the European Union.
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"Where is the State?"
As the hours go by,
the frustration and anger also grows over the little help that reaches
some areas located in areas of difficult access or affected by geopolitical conflicts in the area.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who visited Hatay province on Wednesday, "deficiencies" in the earthquake response, saying
"it is impossible to be prepared for such a catastrophe."
In this context of criticism of the government, Twitter was inaccessible this Wednesday on the main mobile phone providers.
"Where is the State? Where is it?"
Ali despaired in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, at the epicenter of the quake, that he still hoped to find his brother and his nephew alive.
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Hopes of finding more alive are fading
Rescue teams pulled more survivors from the rubble of collapsed buildings on Thursday, but
hopes of finding many more people alive were fading
more than three days after a catastrophic earthquake and series of aftershocks rocked Turkey. and Syria causing
more than 16,000 deaths.
Emergency teams that worked through the night in the city of
Antakya
were able to pull
a girl out of the ruins of a building and also rescued her father alive
two hours later, the IHA news agency reported.
In
Diyarbakir
, east of Antakya, rescue teams freed
an injured woman
from a collapsed building at dawn,
but found the three people next to her dead in
the rubble, the DHA news agency reported.
In addition to the 12,391 people killed in Turkey, the country's disaster management agency said more than 60,000 have been injured.
More than 2,900 people have been reported dead on the Syrian side of the border.
Tens of thousands are believed to
have lost their homes
.
In Antakya, former residents of a collapsed building huddled around a bonfire overnight on Thursday,
wrapping themselves in blankets to try and keep warm.
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