KAHRAMANMARAS, Türkiye: Rescuers pulled children alive Friday (Feb 10) from the rubble of the Türkiye-Syria earthquake as the toll surpassed 22,000 and bitter cold compounded the suffering of the homeless. In the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, one of those hit hardest by the region's worst eart
KAHRAMANMARAS, Türkiye: Rescuers pulled children alive Friday from the rubble of the Türkiye-Syria earthquake as the toll surpassed 22,000 and bitter cold compounded the suffering of the homeless.
Three-year-old Zeynep Ela Parlak was also rescued in Antakya on Friday, while in Adiyaman province, rescuers saved a 60-year-old Eyup Ak and in Gaziantep, two people were pulled out alive including a child whose age was not known. Rescuers carry 16-year-old Melda as they rescue her from being stuck in rubble for three days in Hatay, Türkiye, Feb 9, 2023. Türkiye'S miners, experts in rescuing their own colleagues, told how they rushed to help people trapped by Monday's 7.8 magnitude quake.Yet the bodies of seven Cypriot children, as well as two teachers and a parent killed by the earthquake in Adiyaman were flown home on Friday, with Turkish media reporting that 19 children in the group died.
"As this tragic event unfolds, people's desperate plight must be addressed," said the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, who travelled to quake-hit Aleppo in Syria. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the Security Council to authorise the opening of new cross-border humanitarian aid points between Türkiye and Syria.
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