Rescuers in Turkey pulled more people from the rubble early on Saturday, five days after the country’s most devastating earthquake since 1939, but hopes were fading in Turkey and Syria that many more survivors would be found. | Reuters
In Turkey, 67 people had been clawed from the rubble in the previous 24 hours, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told reporters overnight, in efforts that drew in 31,000 rescuers across the affected region.
Overnight, a 70-year-old woman and a nine-year-old boy were rescued in Kahramanmaras and a 55-year-old woman was pulled from the rubble in the eastern city of Diyarbakir. However, a woman who was rescued on Friday in Kirikhan in Turkey died in hospital on Saturday. South of the city, a convoy of six white vans with sirens and green lights marked “Funeral Transport Service” had slowly traversed the rural roads late on Friday. In one village, Hasan Kunduru said at least nine bodies had been found.Turkey’s Erdogan
Even before the quake, the vote was seen as Erdogan’s toughest challenge in two decades in power. Since the disaster, he has called for solidarity and condemned what he called “negative campaigns for political interest”. “The earthquake was huge, but what was much bigger than the earthquake was the lack of coordination, lack of planning, and incompetence,” said Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the main opposition party.State prosecutors in Kahramanmaras said they will investigate the collapse of buildings and any irregularities in their construction. Police detained a contractor who built a 12-story upmarket apartment block that collapsed in Hatay, as he waited to board a plane in Istanbul.
Many residents of rebel-held northwest Syria had already been displaced from other parts of the country that were taken back by pro-government forces during the ongoing civil war but are now being made homeless again.
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