WRAP: Teens rescued in Turkey 198 hours after earthquake as focus turns to the homeless

Record ID: 1711167

  • Title: WRAP: Teens rescued in Turkey 198 hours after earthquake as focus turns to the homeless
  • Date: 14th February 2023
  • Summary: ELBISTAN, TURKEY (FEBRUARY 12, 2023) (REUTERS) (MUTE) VARIOUS DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWING SNOW-COVERED COLLAPSED BUILDINGS / RUBBLE IN QUAKE-HIT CITY KAHRAMANMARAS, TURKEY (FEBRUARY 12, 2023) (REUTERS) RESCUER CARRYING BLANKETS RECOVERED FROM DEBRIS UNIFORMED SOLDIERS AND RESCUERS LOOKING FOR SURVIVORS VARIOUS OF RESCUER COLLECTING PICTURES FOUND IN RUBBLE ELBISTAN, TURKEY (FEBR
  • Embargoed: 28th February 2023 12:05
  • Keywords: Syria earthquake Turkey earthquake demolition of buildings medical supplies rescue team rescued people
  • Location: ADIYAMAN, KAHRAMANMARAS, ANTAKYA, DIYARBAKIR AND HATAY, TURKEY / ALEPPO, LATAKIA AND HAREM, SYRIA
  • City: ADIYAMAN, KAHRAMANMARAS, ANTAKYA, DIYARBAKIR AND HATAY, TURKEY / ALEPPO, LATAKIA AND HAREM, SYRIA
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Europe,Middle East,Earthquakes/Volcanoes/Tsunami,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA002014714022023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT IS A WRAP, IT CONTAINS NO FRESH MATERIAL
    Rescuers pulled young men alive out of the rubble of collapsed buildings in Turkey's Adiyaman and Kahramanmaras on Tuesday (February 14) 198 hours after last week's earthquake.
    The men were named by officials and local media as 18-year-old Muhammed Cafer in Kahramanmaras and 17-year-old Muhammed Enes Yeninar and his brother, 21-year-old Baki Yeninar in Adiyaman.
    The disaster, with a combined death toll in Turkey and neighbouring Syria now exceeding 37,000, has devastated whole cities in both countries, leaving survivors homeless in the bitter cold, at times sleeping on piles of rubble.
    Survivors joined a mass exodus from earthquake-hit zones in Turkey on Tuesday, and some of the rescue operations are leaving the area as hope fades that many more people will be found alive in collapsed buildings.
    More than 158,000 people have so far evacuated the vast swathe of southern Turkey hit by the quake, one of the deadliest tremors in the region's modern history.
    In Syria, the search for survivors is about to end in the opposition-held northwest of Syria eight days after the quake, the head of the White Helmets main rescue group said.
    Humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia arrived in Syria on Monday (February 13) and Tuesday, Reuters footage showed.
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to allow U.N. aid to enter from Turkey via two more border crossings late on Monday, the world body said, in a move that could help get aid to those in northwest Syria.
    It has so far received little help compared to government-held areas, leading to widespread anger among people living in the region who feel they have been left to fend for themselves.
    (Production: Lisa Giles-Keddie)
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