The chances of survival decrease, hardly any survivors are recovered. Two weeks after the earthquake, Turkey ended rescue operations in nine out of eleven regions. In Syria, aid continues to arrive only slowly.
Almost two weeks after the devastating earthquake in Syria and Turkey, many rescue operations are coming to an end. The search work in nine of the eleven affected provinces in Turkey has ended, said the Turkish civil protection Afad.
Search and rescue teams in Turkey had apparently not found any survivors in the previous 24 hours. The search for survivors is only continuing in around 40 buildings in the provinces of Kahramanmaras and Hatay, said Afad boss Yunus Sezer. The two provinces are near the epicenter of the earthquake.
More than 46,000 people died
Thousands of people are still missing in Turkey and Syria. The chances of survival for people buried under the sea are getting smaller after a long time, also because of the low temperatures.
On Saturday, however, a rescue team in Antakya managed to rescue two more people alive. A third person, their 12-year-old child, died after being rescued. The parents were taken to a hospital.
In total, more than 46,000 people died in the earthquake. The Turkish civil protection reported 40,689 deaths today – 47 more than yesterday. About 5,900 deaths were counted in Syria, but the numbers are updated less frequently.
The extremely high number of victims can be explained by the fact that construction standards were not observed in Turkey, experts say. According to the Turkish Vice President, at least 105,000 buildings have been completely or partially destroyed.
source: tagesschau
