. KayBurley: Could the second wave of this crisis claim even more lives? . Tobias_Ellwood: 'You're exactly right. Once this stops being seen on our headlines the support to the people of Syria will have to go on for months, even years' KayBurley:
Updates from John Sparks and Yousra Elbagir and Kay Burley and Siobhan Robbins in Kahramanmaras. Live reporting by Bhvishya PatelRescue teams are using thermal cameras to locate signs of life but the hopes of finding anyone alive under the rubble are becoming slimmer by the hour.
On a tour of quake-stricken cities yesterday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, said the scope of the disaster was rare, both in terms of the size of the affected area and the number of people living there. He also described the earthquake as"the worst event in 100 years in this region" and praised Turkey's emergency response.In pictures: Collapsed buildings and rubble in Syria
In a translated message, which was shared alongside an image of the Turkish leader hugging a woman at the scene of the earthquake zone, Mr Erdogan said:"We are a nation that believes that with every difficulty there is an ease. Yesterday, Mr Erdogan described the powerful earthquake that ravaged parts of southeast Turkey as"one of the greatest disasters our nation has faced in its history".
The German International Search and Rescue and Germany's Federal Agency for Technical Relief said they would resume their work as soon as Turkish civil protection agency AFAD classifies the situation as safe. Some 82 rescue workers from Austria's armed forces have been in Antakya, Turkey, since 7 February and their specialists have freed nine people from the rubble.
There has been criticism of the lack of aid reaching earthquake victims in Syria, which has been hit by years of civil war and condemnation of its ruling regime.Red Cross operating at a 'massive scale in a winter environment'
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