Few rescue efforts now result in success. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria - Rescuers in Turkey pulled more people from the rubble early on Saturday, five days after the country’s most devastating earthquake since 1939, but hopes were fading in Turkey and Syria that many more survivors would be found.
About 80,000 people were being treated in hospital, while 1.05 million left homeless by the quakes were in temporary shelters, he added. Mr Erdogan has acknowledged some problems with Turkey’s initial response to the earthquake, notably transport access, but said the situation was subsequently brought under control.
Monday’s 7.8 magnitude quake, with several powerful aftershocks across Turkey and Syria, ranks as the world’s seventh-deadliest natural disaster this century, exceeding Japan’s 2011 tremor and tsunami, and approaching the 31,000 killed by a quake in neighbouring Iran in 2003.
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