The United Nations has said its focus in Syria and Turkey is now shifting to looking after survivors of the earthquakes that struck this day last week. The UN aid chief said the rescue phase of the relief operation was coming to a close | Read more:
He said the UN would now be placing more emphasis on providing shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care to the survivors.Rescuers pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey this morning, a week after a major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria killing more than 35,000 people.
Rescue teams from Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus yesterday pulled a man alive from a collapsed building in Turkey, about 160 hours after the quake struck, Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations said. We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said the government will deal firmly with looters, as he faces questions over his response to the earthquake ahead of an election scheduled for June that is expected to be the toughest of his two decades in power. At a funeral near Reyhanli, veiled women wailed and beat their chests as bodies were unloaded from lorries - some in closed wooden coffins, others in uncovered coffins, and still others just wrapped in blankets.In Elbistan, epicentre of an aftershock almost as powerful as Monday's initial 7.8 magnitude quake, 32-year-old mobile shop owner Mustafa Bahcivan said he had come into town almost daily since then.
The United States called on the Syrian government and all other parties to immediately grant humanitarian access to all those in need.
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