Millions in need of humanitarian aid as combined death toll in Turkey and Syria passes 42,000
International aid agencies are stepping up efforts to help the millions of people left homeless, many of whom are sleeping in tents, mosques, schools or in their own cars.
People carry aid materials next to a collapsed building in Adiyaman, Turkey, on Thursday, following last week's powerful earthquake. Photograph: Tolga Bozoglu/EPA-EFE Some 200km away, about 100 people gathered at a small cemetery in the town of Pazarcik, to bury a family of four – Ismail and Selin Yavuzatmaca and their two young daughters – who all died in the doomed Renaissance building.
The aid effort has been hampered by the conflict and many people in the northwest feel abandoned as supplies almost invariably head to other parts of the sprawling disaster zone. “Many people are injured and are in need of medical care. Those trucks contain the necessary medical devices to set up makeshift clinics,” said Abdallah Rajab, a food security official with the Qatar charity.
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