Rescues have become increasingly rare, leaving anger to smoulder as hope dies. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA, Turkey - International aid agencies are stepping up efforts to help millions of homeless people, many sleeping in tents, mosques, schools or cars, 11 days after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing more than 43,000.
Footage showed her being carried away on a stretcher covered with a thermal blanket while an emergency worker held an intravenous drip.“We had prepared her grave and we asked the rescue workers to stop digging as we feared they would damage the remaining corpses under the rubble. Moments later, her voice was heard from under the ruins of the building,” Ms Kilic’s brother-in-law told broadcaster CNN Turk.
For families still waiting to retrieve relatives, there is growing anger over what they see as corrupt building practices and deeply flawed urban development that resulted in thousands of homes and businesses disintegrating. Turkey has promised to investigate anyone suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings and has ordered the detention of more than 100 suspects, including developers.Across the border in Syria, the earthquake slammed a region divided and devastated by 12 years of civil war.
Deliveries from Turkey were severed completely in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, when a route used by the United Nations was temporarily blocked. This week, Mr Assad granted approval for two additional crossings.
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