UPDATED. People in Turkey complain of a lack of equipment, expertise, and support to rescue those trapped – sometimes even as they could hear cries for help.
this week neared 16,000 on Thursday, February 9, as hopes faded of many people being found alive 72 hours since the disaster and frustration simmered over the slow delivery of aid.
The number of people killed by the quake, which struck in the dead of night and was followed by powerful aftershocks, is on course to be larger than in 1999 when a similarly powerful tremor killed 17,000 people in Turkey’s more densely populated northwest. The death toll in Turkey jumped to 12,873 by Thursday morning. In Syria, already devastated by nearly 12 years of civil war, more than 3,000 people have died, according to the government and a rescue service in the rebel-held northwest.
In Turkey, many have complained of a lack of equipment, expertise and support to rescue those trapped – sometimesFurther slowing the relief effort, the main road into the Turkish city of Antakya was clogged with traffic as residents who had finally managed to find scarce gasoline sought to leave the disaster zone and aid trucks headed into the area.
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