Death toll in Turkey and Syria from February 6 earthquake rises above

A medical worker cares for 3-year-old Syrian boy Arslan, who lost all his immediate family and was the sole survivor from his building following the February 6 earthquake that hit Turkey and northern Syria, at a hospital in Sarmada, in Syria's northern Idlib province, Feb. 13, 2023. ⁠

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👉The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria from last week’s powerful earthquake has now risen above 41,000, but a handful of people are still being rescued from the rubble. ⁠

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On Wednesday, two women were pulled from the debris in Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras, and a mother and two children were rescued in Antakya nine days after the earthquake. The rescue in Antakya came 228 hours after the earthquake, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported. ⁠

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Millions of people who survived the quake need humanitarian aid, authorities say, with many survivors left homeless in near-freezing winter temperatures. Rescues are now few and far between. ⁠

Source: VOANEWS