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Syria earthquake: The miraculous rescue of family buried alive (dubbed)
Tragedy piled upon tragedy for the people of northwest Syria – the earthquake on the 6 February shattered lives which were already in pieces.
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Turkey-Syria quake: Why is aid being blocked?
The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria has now passed 46,000, although – incredibly – people are still being pulled alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings twelve days on.
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Turkey-Syria quake: fading hopes and shoddy buildings
The WHO called it the “worst natural disaster” in 100 years in the region.
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2.2 million people evacuated from earthquake hit areas
Turkey’s President Erdogan has said that more than 2.2 million people have now been evacuated from areas affected by last week’s devastating earthquake, while 1.6 million have received emergency shelter.
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Turkey-Syria Earthquake: First UN aid convoy reaches border
The frantic hunt for survivors in the devastating earthquake last week which has so far claimed 38,000 lives in Turkey and Syria is slowing to a trickle as the clamour for aid and equipment intensifies.
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Syrians left to dig through collapsed buildings with bare hands without earthquake aid, NGO says
We spoke to Radwan Awad, Team Leader of the Syrian humanitarian organisation Mercy Corps, and asked him if they had received any kind of aid.
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Syria earthquake: Devastated rebel-held areas in urgent need of aid
In Syria, the area hardest hit by the earthquake is the northwest region, which is predominantly under rebel control and in desperate need of aid.
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Government ‘should have drawn lessons’ after 1999 earthquake, says Turkish opposition MP
We’re joined from the Turkish capital by Ünal Çeviköz, a senior MP from Turkey’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party.
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Turkey earthquake: calls for more aid as hospitals overwhelmed with victims
A week after the earthquake in Turkey, international aid is arriving but hundreds of thousands of people are without basic supplies or places to live.
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Northern Cypriot student volleyball team among 33,000 quake death toll
More than a hundred arrest warrants have been issued over the construction of buildings which failed to withstand the quake. Among the tens of thousands killed were a Northern Cypriot student volleyball team who won a game in Turkey, the day before all 24 young people lost their lives. We spoke to one of only…
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Syria earthquake: ‘left behind’ and ‘forgotten’ says Brit-Syrian survivor
The United Nations says it is working urgently to get more aid into northern Syria, where areas devastated by the earthquake have seen little help. Rebel-held towns like Jandaris – close to the Turkish border – have had to make do without any of the supplies, heavy machinery and international rescue teams that have been…
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Turkey quake: over a hundred arrest warrants issued over building safety
More than 33,000 people are now known to have died after Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria – and each hour rescue workers find yet more bodies in the rubble of destroyed towns. Remarkably, some people are still being found alive. Earlier today a ten year old girl was among survivors pulled out of collapsed…
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Turkey Syria earthquake: more incredible rescues but death toll passes 25,000
More than 25,000 people are now confirmed to have died in Turkey and Syria, after the powerful earthquakes which struck the region on Monday. As rescue teams continue to search through destroyed buildings that number is expected to rise. Incredibly, some people are still being pulled out alive, after more than 130 hours trapped under…
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Earthquake: ‘The worst scenario happened’, says Turkish MP
We spoke to Ahmet Yildiz, an MP from President Erdogan’s AK Party, who arrived in devastated Antakya today.
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Rescue efforts defy odds in quake-hit areas of Turkey and Syria
In the wake of every natural disaster comes a horrible turning point at which rescue missions become recovery operations.
