Rescuers pulled out children Friday from the rubble of the Türkiye-Syria earthquake as the toll approached 24,000 and a winter freeze compounded the suffering for nearly one million people estimated to be in urgent need of food.
KAHRAMANMARAS, Türkiye – Rescuers pulled out children Friday from the rubble of the Türkiye-Syria earthquake as the toll approached 24,000 and a winter freeze compounded the suffering for nearly one million people estimated to be in urgent need of food.
But miraculous rescues continued more than 100 hours after the first tremor tore apart roads and flattened hundreds of buildings while a winter storm raged over the region. Only two aid convoys have reached the region this week from Türkiye, where authorities are engaged in an even bigger quake relief operation of their own.In Türkiye, Kurdish militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party , which is considered a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies, announced a temporary halt in fighting to ease recovery work.
The United Nations World Food Programme appealed for $77 million to provide food rations and hot meals for 874,000 people affected by the deadly quake.
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