Several children were rescued from collapsed buildings in Turkey on Monday, a week after the country’s worst earthquake in modern history, but hopes of many more survivors were fading.
Rescuers in Turkey pulled several children alive from collapsed buildings on Monday as criticism of the authorities grew.
Rescue workers pull out Naime Sakar from a collapsed building in Adiyaman, southern Turkey, on Monday.But rescuers admit that hopes of finding many more survivors of the 7.8 magnitude quake that has killed more than 37,000 in Turkey and Syria were fading. The total death toll in Syria, a nation ravaged by more than a decade of civil war, has reached 5,714, including those who died in a rebel enclave and government-held areas.
Dozens of residents and overwhelmed first responders who spoke to Reuters expressed bewilderment at a lack of water, food, medicine, body bags and cranes in the disaster zone, with many criticising an overly slow and centralised response by Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority .“God knows what will happen next,” said Ismail Yuvarlak, 42.
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