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2023-02-08T11:51:18.856Z
In freezing cold, rescuers are racing against time to try to rescue survivors in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake, the ever-worsening toll of which now exceeds 8,300 dead in Turkey and Syria. According to Harlem Désir, former MEP and Vice-President of the IRC (International Rescue Committee), "it's a race against time, but also a race for access to populations who are sometimes very isolated, including in the rural areas, very far from urban centers".
In freezing cold, rescuers are racing against time to try to rescue survivors in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake, the ever-worsening toll of which now exceeds 8,300 dead in Turkey and Syria.
According to Harlem Désir, former MEP and Vice-President of the IRC (International Rescue Committee), "it's a race against time, but also a race for access to populations who are sometimes very isolated, including in the rural areas, very far from urban centers".
Source: france24
