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10 Feb 2023

Turkey Syria earthquake: Children still being pulled out alive as death toll hits 23,000

Chief Correspondent

It’s now 108 hours since the first quake struck here at just after 4am on Monday when so many people were buried in over six thousand buildings that collapsed.

Tonight we know that nearly 23,000  people have died in Syria and Turkey and that figure rises every day.

But still people are being rescued and many are children.