WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT This Syrian father was reunited with his 18-month-old son at a hospital days after a deadly earthquake left the family trapped under the rubble of their collapsed house
The number of deaths in Turkey rose to 20,213 on Friday, the country's health minister said. In Syria, more than 3,500 have been killed. Many more people remain under rubble.Rescuers, including teams from dozens of countries, toiled night and day in the ruins of thousands of wrecked buildings to find buried survivors. In freezing temperatures, they regularly called for silence as they listened for any sound of life from mangled concrete mounds.
His eyes wide open, baby Yagiz Ulas was wrapped in a thermal blanket and carried to a field hospital. Emergency workers also took away his mother, dazed and pale but conscious on a stretcher, video images showed. Across the border in Syria, rescuers from the White Helmets group used their hands to dig though plaster and cement until reaching the bare foot of a young girl, still wearing pink pyjamas, grimy but alive and free.sobbed as he sat on the pile of rubble and twisted metal that had been his family's home, burying his face in the baby clothes that had belonged to one of his children.The head of Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation, Bulent Yildirim, went to Syria to see the impact there.
Many people have set up shelters in supermarket car parks, mosques, roadsides or amid the ruins. Survivors are often desperate for food, water and heat.
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