Desperation and loss were growing Tuesday as frantic rescue workers continue their increasingly futile efforts to recover survivors trapped by the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the death toll in Turkey from last week’s earthquake increased to 35,418; Syrian officials have said at least 5,800 have died there.
"I have never seen so much death and so many dead bodies in my entire life," he said, crying as he spoke."The conditions are like in an Armageddon movie; it’s unbelievable. The whole city smells of dead people."In a video he shared, red-helmeted fire department workers carefully clear rubble from around the boy, one worker cradling his hand between the metal reinforcing bars embedded in the concrete surrounding him.
Turkish authorities said more than 150,000 survivors have been moved to shelters outside the affected provinces. Aldeen recounted finding a dead man trapped beneath rubble, his body cradling a blanket-swaddled infant who also died. In another instance, he said, a woman escaped out a door when a collapse began but lost her husband and two children.
"I was watching the bodies in front of me by the fire and I just started crying," he said."There are bodies everywhere you walk. And they're just on the street, bodies.
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