ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria - Cold, hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people left homeless after
The first UN convoy carrying aid to stricken Syrians crossed over the border from Turkey.
In Syria, already devastated by nearly 12 years of civil war, more than 3,200 people have died, according to the government and a rescue service in the rebel-held north-west. Teams frequently called for silence, asking all vehicles and generators to be turned off and reporters to keep quiet as they listened for sounds of anyone alive under the concrete blocks.A two-year-old boy was picked out of the rubble by a Romanian and Polish rescue team in Hatay 79 hours after the quake, video released by Turkey’s Humanitarian Relief Foundation on Thursday showed.
Nevertheless, the disaster will pose an additional challenge to the long-ruling president in the election.
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