The Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll has climbed beyond 20,000 on the fourth day of rescue efforts, surpassing the more than 17,000 killed in 1999 when a similarly powerful quake hit north-western Turkey.
The death toll across both countries has surpassed 20,000 - more than the 17,000 killed in a quake in Turkey in 1999.Hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless in the middle of winter.War-ravaged Ukraine, which Russia has invaded, has sent 88 people to Turkey to help.In Syria, already devastated by nearly 12 years of civil war, more than 3200 people have died, according to the government and a rescue service in the rebel-held north-west.
The boy was picked out of the rubble by a Romanian and Polish rescue team in Hatay province, near the Mediterranean Sea. With anger simmering over the slow delivery of aid and delays in getting the rescue effort under way, the disaster is bound to play into the vote if it goes ahead. Many have camped out in makeshift shelters in supermarket car parks, mosques, roadsides or amid the ruins, often desperate for food, water and heat.At a petrol station near the Turkish town of Kemalpasa, people picked through cardboard boxes of donated clothes. In the port city of Iskenderun, Reuters journalists saw people huddled around campfires on roadsides and in wrecked garages and warehouses.In Turkey’s Maras, people camped inside a bank, taping a sheet in the window for privacy.
Nevertheless, the disaster will pose an additional challenge to the long-ruling president in the election. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pushed for more humanitarian access to north-western Syria, saying he would be “very happy” if the United Nations could use more than one border crossing to deliver help.
In its latest statement, DFAT said four Australians had been confirmed missing, including Pahali and another man, Suat Bayram, from Melbourne.
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