Attempts to reach survivors have been hindered by temperatures below freezing and close to 200 aftershocks, which made the search through unstable structures perilous.
But with the damage spread over a wide area, the massive relief operation often struggled to reach devastated towns, and voices that had been crying out from the rubble fell silent.
Drone footage shows some of the damage in Idlib after a powerful earthquake struck southeast Turkey, near the Syrian border, on Feb. 6, 2023. Credit: Syria Civil Defence via Storyful For the entire quake-hit area, that number could be as high as 23 million people, according to Adelheid Marschang, a senior emergencies officer with the World Health Organization.Teams from nearly 30 countries around the world headed for Turkey or Syria.
But in the northwestern Syrian town of Jinderis, a young girl called Nour was pulled alive from the wreckage of a collapsed building Monday.
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