Turkey-Syria earthquake

As the death toll passed 5000, teams of rescue workers began a frantic effort to find survivors in near-freezing conditions along the border.

Dramatic video showed a rescuer carrying the girl, whose mother, father and four siblings were killed.

A UN Security Council agreement authorises the use of just one border crossing for deliveries from Turkey into the north-west. Every second could mean saving a life," they tweeted on Tuesday. "We heard a voice while we were digging," he told AFP news agency on Tuesday. "Time is running out. The UN has vowed to use "any and all means" possible to get aid to people in the north-west, but it has said that deliveries have been halted temporarily due to damaged roads and other logistical issues. "We cleared the dust and found the baby with the umbilical cord [intact], so we cut it and my cousin took her to hospital."

"An advance team of 20 SCDF personnel comprising officers from the elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART), paramedic specialists and a doctor is ...

They are supporting search and rescue operations, providing first aid, performing emergency medical evacuations and transporting injured individuals to hospitals," said SRC. The team is from a contingent known as Operation Lionheart. Advertisement

The death toll continued to rise in Turkey and Syria as a frantic search for earthquake survivors pressed on. Amid the horror came small victories.

Millions of people have been displaced by a civil war that has dragged on for more than a decade.] [The death toll in Syria has exceeded 1,800 -- about 1,000 of them in the war-torn northwest region held by the opposition -- and the number was expected to rise. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said more than 1,600 people were killed in Hatay, the most of any of the 10 affected provinces and 30% of the Turkish total so far. Some buildings remained standing but were no longer structurally sound and had to be emptied, including a maternity hospital, according to the Syrian American Medical Society.] He said 13 million of the country’s 85 million people were affected in some way by the disaster.] ["Our biggest relief is that over 8,000 of our citizens have been rescued from the rubble so far," Erdogan said.] [Children among the most vulnerable] [UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, said its immediate focus is on ensuring children and families have access to safe drinking water and sanitation services, reuniting kids with families, providing "psychological first aid" and getting schools, now many of them being used for temporary housing, reopened. Displaced families in northwest Syria and Syrian refugee families living in Turkey in informal settlements are among the most vulnerable, UNICEF spokesman James Elder said.] ["Communities are grappling with an ongoing cholera outbreak and heavy rain and snow," Elder said. The newborn, her umbilical cord still dangling after a neighbor cut it, was rushed to a hospital in the nearby town of Afrin and kept in an incubator. “It is extremely logistically and administratively difficult to get the approvals (from Damascus),” she said. [In Syria, no end in sight to suffering] [In northwest Syria, the quake leveled towns in a region already under siege. [30 hours after collapse, survivors freed from rubble] [In Turkey's southernmost Hatay province, the ] [Daily Sabah](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/dozens-rescued-in-quake-hit-hatay-as-crews-race-against-time/news) reported that a 16-year-old girl was rescued after being trapped under the debris of a five-story building for nearly 22 hours. [California quakes not unlike those in Turkey] [California and Turkey are not drastically different when it comes to earthquakes, except they should be more frequent in California, said Robert Muir-Wood, chief research officer at the risk management firm Moody’s RMS. The newborn girl’s umbilical cord was still connected to her mother, Afraa Abu Hadiya, who died in the collapse, they said.] ►Turkish Airlines said it shuttled 80 flights with almost 12,000 volunteers into the earthquake zone in southern Turkey on Tuesday.

A frantic race was underway Tuesday to find more survivors and help the injured as the death toll from the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and ...

“The adverse weather conditions continue in the region. health agency is sending three chartered flights of medical supplies, including surgical trauma kits, to both Turkey and Syria from its logistics hub in Dubai. In Istanbul, meanwhile, thousands of aid volunteers flocked to the city’s main airport offering to participate in the search and rescue efforts. Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay said the total number of deaths in Turkey had risen to 3,419, with another 20,534 people injured. “I call on for the lifting of sanctions on Syria. ___ Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay says some 3,294 search and rescue teams from 14 countries have arrived so far to join in the efforts. And Spanish medical workers will set up a field hospital in Turkey to treat the wounded, Spain’s foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, said Tuesday. “Significant damage has been noted in the citadel. The United Nations’ cultural agency says it has undertaken a preliminary survey of damage to heritage sites in the earthquake-hit areas, with an aim to help rapidly secure and stabilize them. The European Commission said 25 search and rescue teams are being deployed “to the hardest hit areas,” 11 of them having already reached Turkey. Nearly 3,000 rescue personnel were there and said the number would double by Wednesday. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the road leading to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey to northern Syria was damaged, temporarily disrupting aid delivery to the rebel-held northwest.

Frantic search for people buried under collapsed buildings as death toll from Turkey-Syria earthquake passes 7900.

Rescuers battle time, freezing temperatures in race to save survivors trapped in rubble after devastating 7.8-magnitude quake; over 30 countries, ...

At least 1,020 people have died in the rebel-held northwest, according to the White Helmets, with more than 2,300 injured. A large fire at the port, caused by containers that toppled over during the earthquake, sent thick plumes of black smoke into the sky. The UN has increased cross-conflict line deliveries but not enough for the millions in need. But it can’t move the quantities needed because of difficulties in arranging convoys with opposing parties, making aid deliveries from Turkey critical. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 13 million of the country’s 85 million people were affected, and he declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces. But authorities faced criticism from residents of hard-hit Hatay, sandwiched between Syria and the Mediterranean Sea, who say rescue efforts have lagged. Turkey is home to millions of refugees from the war. But rescuers did not have the heavy equipment needed to rescue her. The shaking toppled thousands of buildings and heaped more misery on a region wracked by Syria’s 12-year civil war and refugee crisis. [crying newborn](https://www.timesofisrael.com/baby-said-born-under-rubble-in-syria-is-rescued-while-mother-dies/) still connected by the umbilical cord to her mother, who was dead. The European Commission is also helping neighboring Syria by funding humanitarian organizations supervising search and rescue operations. The death toll climbed above 7,700 and was expected to rise further.