Medecins Sans Frontieres said a convoy of 14 of its trucks had entered northwestern Syria on Sunday to assist in earthquake rescue operations
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said a convoy of 14 of its trucks had entered northwestern Syria on Sunday to assist in earthquake rescue operations, as concerns grow over lack of access to the war-ravaged area.
In Syria, already shattered by more than a decade of civil war, the bulk of fatalities have been in the northwest. The area is controlled by insurgents at war with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad which has complicated efforts to get aid to people. More than 46,000 people have been killed after the quake struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6. The toll is expected to climb, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkey known to have been destroyed and many people still missing.Orhan Tatar, General Director of Earthquake and Risk Reduction at Turkey’s Disaster Management at AFAD, reiterated on Sunday that the Eastern Anatolian Fault broke apart in five different branches, with 25 kilometres of fractures measured in the province of Malatya alone.
Workers from Kyrgyzstan tried to save a Syrian family from the rubble of a building in Antakya in southern Turkey. As rescue efforts continued one worker yelled into the rubble: “Take a deep breath if you can hear my voice.”
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