World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has arrived in Aleppo in Syria, as the death toll from Monday's devastating earthquake nears 25,000
INTERNATIONAL AID IS trickling into parts of Turkey and Syria today where rescuers toiled to pull children from rubble in areas devastated by a massive earthquake that has killed over 24,000 people.
World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived this morning in Aleppo, which was devastated by the quake. He added that the WHO would continue to provide emergency medical services and bring in more emergency supplies necessary for “trauma management”.He expressed concern over the after-effects of the earthquake, especially the disruption of services.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which is considered a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies, announced a temporary halt in fighting to ease recovery work. A decade of civil war and Syrian-Russian aerial bombardment had already destroyed hospitals and created shortages of electricity and water.
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