Rescue teams began winding down the search for survivors on Monday as the focus switched to tackling a dire humanitarian disaster caused by the earthquake that has left more than 35,000 dead in Turkey and Syria.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Assad has agreed to open two more border crossings — Bab Al-Salam and Al Raee from Türkey to northwest Syria — to allow in aid. In Turkey on Monday, siblings Harun, 8, and Eyuphan, 15, were rescued 181 hours after the fifth-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century, the Andadolu news agency reported.
“The youngest, traumatised by the aftershocks, keeps asking: ‘Dad, are we going to die?'” Tatoglu said of his six-year-old.
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