WHO chief “heartbroken” by visit to quake-hit Syria, says more funds needed
Bab al-Hawa, Syria Reuters Available funding and new border crossings were still not enough to help quake-hit citizens in Syria’s battered north-west, the head of the WHO said on Wednesday, adding he was “disturbed and heartbroken” by a visit to the rebel-held region. World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking to reporters after […]
New Turkey quake kills one person, flattens more buildings
Osmaniye, Turkey Reuters An earthquake shook south-east Turkey on Monday, killing one person, injuring 110 and causing 29 buildings to collapse, Turkish authorities said, triggering frantic work to rescue several people believed trapped in rubble. The latest aftershock, with a magnitude of 5.6 and depth of 6.15 kilometres, hit three weeks after a massive quake […]
Six killed after latest earthquake shakes Turkey-Syria border
Antakya, Turkey Reuters Six people were killed in the latest earthquake to strike the border region of Turkey and Syria, authorities said on Tuesday, two weeks after a massive quake killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. Monday’s quake, which struck just as the rescue work from the […]
Fresh quake hits Turkey-Syria border area two weeks after disaster
Antakya, Turkey Reuters Another earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on Monday, just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake which killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. Monday’s quake, this time with a magnitude of 6.4, was centred near the […]
Earthquake death toll passes 46,000; desperation for signs of life
Antakya/Kahranmanmaras, Turkey Reuters More than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkey now known to have been destroyed, and many still missing. As Turkey attempts to manage its worst modern disaster, concerns were growing over the […]
Turkey finds more survivors as anger grows a week after earthquake
Kahramanmaras/Antakya, Turkey Reuters Rescuers in Turkey pulled several children alive from collapsed buildings on Monday, a week after the country’s worst earthquake in modern history, but hopes of many more survivors were fading and criticism of the authorities grew. In one city, rescuers were digging a tunnel to reach a grandmother, mother and daughter, all […]
Updated: Rescuers dig through rubble as Turkey-Syria quake death toll passes 7,800
Updated: 10:45am, 8th February (AEST)Antakya, Turkey Reuters The death toll of a devastating earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria jumped to more than 7,800 people on Tuesday as rescuers worked against time in harsh winter conditions to dig survivors out of the rubble of collapsed buildings. As the scale of the disaster became ever more […]
Death toll rises to 77 from Turkey floods, 47 reported missing
Istanbul, TurkeyReuters The death toll from flash floods that swept through several towns in Turkish Black Sea provinces last week has risen to 77 people and emergency workers are continuing to search for 47 who are missing, authorities said on Monday. The floods last week brought chaos as torrents of water tossed dozens of cars […]
At least 44 killed in Turkey flood as search for missing continues
Bozkurt Turkey Reuters Families of those missing after Turkey’s worst floods in years anxiously watched rescue teams search buildings on Saturday, fearing the death toll from the raging torrents could rise further. At least 44 people have died from the floods in the northern Black Sea region, the second natural disaster to strike the country […]
Flash floods sweep through northern Turkey in new natural disaster
Istanbul, TurkeyReuters Seventeen people were killed in flash floods in Turkey’s Black Sea region on Thursday that sent water and debris cascading through streets, damaged bridges and ripped up roads in the second natural disaster to strike the country this month. The floodwaters brought chaos to northern provinces just as authorities were declaring that some […]