Rescuers in Turkey pulled two women alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings after they were been trapped for 122 hours following the region’s deadliest quake in two decades, authorities …
Rescuers in Turkey pulled two women alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings after they were been trapped for 122 hours following the region’s deadliest quake in two decades, authorities said on Saturday.24,150 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria a day after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to Monday’s huge earthquake.
Sixty-seven people had been clawed from the rubble in the previous 24 hours, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told reporters overnight, in efforts that drew in 31,000 rescuers across the affected region.Anadolu Agency via Getty Imageswhile 1.05 million left homeless by the quakes huddled in temporary shelters, he added.
made his first reported trip to affected areas since the quake, visiting a hospital in Aleppo with his wife Asma, state media said.Anadolu Agency via Getty Imagesacross the front lines of the country’s 12-year civil war, a move that could speed help for millions of desperate people. natural disaster this century, exceeding Japan’s 2011 tremor and tsunami, and approaching the 31,000 killed by a quake in neighboring Iran in 2003.On Friday, Erdogan visited Turkey’s province of Adiyaman, where he acknowledged the government’s response was not as fast as it could have been.
Even before the quake, the vote was being seen as Erdogan’s toughest challenge in two decades in power. He has Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of Turkey’s main opposition party, criticized the government’s response.
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