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Time is running out for those still feared trapped under rubble in Turkey and Syria. Photo/Suhaib Salem/REUTERS
ANKARA – Rescue teams work hard to pull survivors from the rubble of the earthquake as the death toll surpassed 9,000 in southern Turkey and northern Syria on Wednesday (8/2/2023).
Officials and medics say 7,108 people have died in Turkey and 2,530 in Syria, bringing the total to 9,630.
But that number could still increase dramatically if experts’ worst fears come true.
Hopes of rescuing more people from under the rubble have faded as time has passed since the 7.8-magnitude quake at dawn Monday.
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The quake was Turkey’s biggest since 1939, when around 33,000 people were killed in the eastern Erzincan province.
Since then, the region has been hit by more than 100 aftershocks, including a second magnitude 7.6 quake.
The tragic sight of a newborn being lifted alive from the rubble and a broken father clutching the hand of his dead daughter provide gripping images of the victims.
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Nearly two days after an apartment building collapsed in Kahramanmaras, a Turkish city not far from the epicenter, rescuers pulled a three-year-old boy from under the rubble.
