The desperate search is complicated by geography and geopolitics, freezing weather and the sheer scope of the disaster. Read more at straitstimes.com.
toiling in a vast and desperate search complicated by geography and geopolitics, freezing weather and the sheer scope of the disaster.
In Gaziantep, a Turkish city near the epicenter of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which struck on Monday, four members of one family were painstakingly rescued, one at a time. In north-west Syria, residents found an infant crying in the rubble, seemingly the only survivor of a building collapse. In Syria, where more than a decade of civil war had already created a humanitarian crisis, rescue efforts were hampered by the location of the quake zone, which includes government- and opposition-controlled lands.
But hopes that aid could reach rebel-controlled areas by other routes were piqued by a statement on Tuesday by Syria’s foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad. Pleading for international support on Lebanese TV, he said his government was ready to allow aid for quake victims to enter all regions, provided the aid did not reach armed terrorist groups.Every problem seemed to be compounded by another. A huge fire broke out Tuesday at one of Turkey’s major ports, disrupting the arrival of supplies.
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