The screams of people still trapped in the rubble-filled the night early on Tuesday and relatives wept for their loved ones as the death toll in Turkey and in neighboring northwest Syria rose to more than 3,700. | Reuters CDNDigital
Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi Red Crescent society workers unload trucks with aid that will be shipped on a plane of emergency relief to Syria to support victims of the deadly earthquake, at a military airbase near Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq, February 6, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
Temperatures fell close to freezing overnight, worsening conditions for people trapped under rubble or left homeless. The earthquake, which was followed by a series of aftershocks, was the biggest recorded worldwide by the U.S. Geological Survey since a tremor in the remote South Atlantic in August 2021.
Poor internet connections and damaged roads between some of the worst-hit cities in Turkey’s south, homes to millions of people, hindered efforts to assess and address the impact. In the Turkish city of Iskenderun, rescuers climbed an enormous pile of debris that was once part of a state hospital’s intensive care unit in search of survivors. Health workers did what they could to tend to the new rush of injured patients.
A top U.N. humanitarian official said fuel shortages and the harsh winter weather were also creating obstacles to its response.
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