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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Updated: Major earthquake kills 3,700 in Turkey and Syria, weather hits survivors
Updated: 9:10am, 7th February, 2023 (AEST)Kahramanmaras, Turkey/Damascus, SyriaReuters A huge earthquake killed more than 3,700 people across a swathe of Turkey and north-west Syria on Monday, with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the thousands left injured or homeless and hampering efforts to find survivors. The magnitude 7.8 quake brought down whole apartment […]