At least seven survivors were rescued today from the rubble of earthquake-hit areas of Turkey, local media reported, eight days after the worst quake in the country's modern history
It included a woman pulled out from the ruins of a building in the southern Turkish province of Hatay by Ukrainian rescue workers, broadcaster CNN Turk reported.
17-year-old Muhammed Enes Yeninar has been pulled alive from the ruins of an apartment block in Kahramanmaras province of Turkey some 198 hours after last week's devastating earthquake | Read more: https://t.co/RpsgkLUL4j pic.twitter.com/X5AVL8gJ5F "We are witnessing the worst natural disaster in the WHO European region for a century and we are still learning about its magnitude," Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, told a press conference.
The confirmed death toll following the earthquake stands at 35,331, as officials and medics said 31,643 people had died in Turkey and at least 3,688 in Syria."The needs are huge, increasing by the hour. Some 26 million people across both countries need humanitarian assistance," Dr Kluge said.Rescuers again worked through the night to rescue people clinging to life. But some teams have started scaling back operations as low temperatures reduced the already slim chances of survival.
The group, which has rescue workers across the region where whole neighbourhoods and villages were wiped out, said they were also collecting names of the missing people in the enclave where the group's latest death toll stood at 2,274 with thousands injured. But in the southern city of Antakya, excavators began tearing down heavily damaged buildings and clearing rubble. Blue lights from ambulances lit up the dim streets where there was still no power and the smell of smoke filled the air.
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