Teenager Adnan Muhammed Korkut was stuck under rubble for 94 hours following the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Latest:
Updates from John Sparks and Yousra Elbagir in Kahramanmaras, Kay Burley and Siobhan Robbins in Adiyaman, and Alex Crawford in northern Syria. Live reporting by Faith Ridler and Katie WilliamsThe death toll in Turkey and Syria has risen again in the last few moments.Another 3,553 were killed due to the earthquake in Syria.Watch: Assad accuses West of 'politicising' aid
The rescues come as hopes fade of finding more survivors following Monday's 7.8 magnitude tremor, in the face of freezing temperatures.You can read more from Sky News in the link below...We reported earlier as the president of Syria made a visit to Aleppo in the wake of a devastating earthquake, his first appearance since the disaster.
A man who lost nine relatives in the earthquakes in Turkey said the situation is"horrifying" and something he"can't put into words". "This is not a normal country where you have all the means you need - it's a complex geographical situation and complex security situation," said El-Mostafa Benlamlih.He added that people have been"working hard around the clock", and that the response had also been hindered by a"lack of fuel".It's been a busy day of fast-moving developments as search and rescue efforts continue in earnest nearly five days after earthquakes rocked the two nations.
Here, they thought their plight couldn't get any worse than running from shelling and cowering from regime bombs, but what was already an horrendously wretched life for millions, has become a whole lot more tragic since the earthquake.Those who've fled from Bashar al Assad's bombs and bullets for 12 years, have found themselves running again as their homes collapsed and the earthquakes tore into infrastructure already massively weakened by years of war.
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