Rescuers work for second day to find quake survivors as death toll surpasses 5,000
Rescuers work for second day to find quake survivors as death toll surpasses 5,000
Turkey's ADANA and ISTANBUL — Rescuers scoured Turkey and Syria on Tuesday as they continued their search for survivors of the devastating earthquake and its several aftershocks, which destroyed hundreds of structures around the area and caused the reported death toll to surpass 5,000.
The effort to search amid the wreckage of buildings and identify survivors who are at risk of developing hypothermia as temperatures fall below 27 degrees Fahrenheit has been hindered by subfreezing winter temperatures and dozens of aftershocks after Monday morning's magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
Ruth Sherlock of NPR stood near a collapsing 15-story residential high-rise in the city of Adana, where at least 11 buildings had collapsed. An old father and two ladies were hugging and sobbing after one of their daughters died while Sherlock spoke to them. Concerned family members were watching rescue personnel look for survivors under the wreckage in the subzero weather. One of them said, "She seemed joyful. We couldn't have imagined it would end this way."
The Associated Press reported that as of lunchtime on Tuesday, more than 5,100 people had been killed in Turkey and Syria, including 3,419 in Turkey, while 20,534 more had been injured. On the Syrian side of the border, a total of 1,602 more fatalities had been recorded.
According to the authorities, 13.5 million people across 10 regions in Turkey were affected. Turkey has seen the rescue of more than 7,800 individuals. Additionally, the authorities said that over 11,000 structures had suffered damage.
Numerous nations, including the United States, sent teams to help with rescue operations. By late Tuesday morning, according to the Turkish government, more than 13,000 rescue personnel had left Istanbul for the region to aid those affected.
The impact of the earthquake and its aftershocks devastated an area already suffering from Syria's civil war, which has sent more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees into Turkey as a result of the conflict.
Turkey's ADANA and ISTANBUL — Rescuers scoured Turkey and Syria on Tuesday as they continued their search for survivors of the devastating earthquake and its several aftershocks, which destroyed hundreds of structures around the area and caused the reported death toll to surpass 5,000.
The effort to search amid the wreckage of buildings and identify survivors who are at risk of developing hypothermia as temperatures fall below 27 degrees Fahrenheit has been hindered by subfreezing winter temperatures and dozens of aftershocks after Monday morning's magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
Ruth Sherlock of NPR stood near a collapsing 15-story residential high-rise in the city of Adana, where at least 11 buildings had collapsed. An old father and two ladies were hugging and sobbing after one of their daughters died while Sherlock spoke to them. Concerned family members were watching rescue personnel look for survivors under the wreckage in the subzero weather. One of them said, "She seemed joyful. We couldn't have imagined it would end this way."
The Associated Press reported that as of lunchtime on Tuesday, more than 5,100 people had been killed in Turkey and Syria, including 3,419 in Turkey, while 20,534 more had been injured. On the Syrian side of the border, a total of 1,602 more fatalities had been recorded.
According to the authorities, 13.5 million people across 10 regions in Turkey were affected. Turkey has seen the rescue of more than 7,800 individuals. Additionally, the authorities said that over 11,000 structures had suffered damage.
Numerous nations, including the United States, sent teams to help with rescue operations. By late Tuesday morning, according to the Turkish government, more than 13,000 rescue personnel had left Istanbul for the region to aid those affected.
The impact of the earthquake and its aftershocks devastated an area already suffering from Syria's civil war, which has sent more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees into Turkey as a result of the conflict.
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