Wilfried Devillers (special envoy to Antakya) 11:08 a.m., February 15, 2023

In Turkey and Syria, the toll on the spot now exceeds 40,000 dead.

Nine days after the earthquake, it is impossible to find survivors.

Search operations for living people now give way to clearing rubble.

Nine days after the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the toll on the spot exceeds 40,000 dead.

The majority of victims are in Turkey.

From now on, the chances of finding survivors are almost nil.

Some relief teams have left the country.

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End of rescue 

Thus, the Spanish rescuers and the Algerian teams stopped their search operations.

A few miracles still happen.

Tuesday, four people were rescued, including two in Antakya, one of the cities most affected by the earthquake.

They had been stuck in the rubble for more than 210 hours.

Two younger brothers were also saved.

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If the rescue operations stop, the rubble clearing operations begin.

In addition to the clearing, hundreds of thousands of people now need to be sheltered.

More than a million of them have been rehoused in recent days in student residences, according to the Turkish government.

Others are housed in hastily erected makeshift camps.

400,000 survivors have been evacuated from the devastated regions in recent days.