WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Rescuers pulled a woman and a child alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey, a week after a deadly earthquake struck the country and neighboring Syria
"What is the most striking here, is even in Aleppo, which has suffered so much these many years, this moment, that moment... was about the worst that these people have experienced," the UN's Griffiths said.There is currently only a single crossing open on the Turkey-Syria border for U.N. aid supplies. Griffiths said that the UN would have aid moving from government-held regions in Syria to the rebel-held northwest.
An HTS source in Idlib told Reuters the group would not allow any shipments from government-held areas and that aid would be coming in from Turkey to the north.Residents and aid workers from several Turkish cities have cited worsening security conditions, with widespread accounts of businesses and collapsed homes being robbed.
Turkey said on Sunday about 80,000 people were in hospital, and more than 1 million in temporary shelters. Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen in Antakya and Henriette Chacar in Elbistan; Additional reporting by Umit Bektas in Antakya, Maya Gebeily in Adana, Daren Butler and Yesim Dikmen in Istanbul, Ece Toksabay in Ankara, Timour Azhari in Beirut, Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman; Writing by Stephen Coates and Michael Georgy; Editing by Jane Merriman, Lincoln Feast, Robert Birsel and Conor Humphries
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