Turkey woke up today numb after the powerful earthquakes that caused thousands of deaths. Time is running out for the survivors in the wreckage, but there are also those images that create hope.
Like the rescue of 24-year-old Rumeysa Yalcinkaya this morning after 27 hours of being trapped in the debris in Kahramanmaras, according to the British Guardian.
The death toll from the earthquake that hit southern Turkey yesterday, Monday, has reached 3,381, the Turkish disaster management agency announced today.
After this announcement the total number of dead in Turkey and Syria from the earthquake rises to 4,890which was one of the most severe to hit the region in almost a century.
In Syria, hundreds of families are still trapped under the rubble of damaged buildings after a devastating earthquake, the head of Syria’s opposition-run civil protection agency said today.
Raed al-Saleh told Reuters that help from international organizations was urgently needed for the efforts of the group, known as the White Helmets, in rebel-held northwest Syria, where hundreds of people have been killed and wounded.
Source: News Beast
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