A seven-month-old boy has been rescued from the wreckage by a search team in the southern Turkish province of Hatay.
A seven-month-old was rescued on Sunday (Turkish time). A 13-year-old and a 10-day-old were also pulled from rubble by rescuers over the weekend.
Residents have expressed outrage at what they said were corrupt builders who cut corners to fatten their profits. “The concrete is like sand,” said one man. “It was built too quickly.”
Most urgently,we need to get funds to the local organisations in Syria and Turkey that are – and always have been – leading on the frontline.
Rescue crews on Saturday pulled more survivors,including entire families,from toppled buildings as the death toll of the enormous quake that struck five days ago surpassed 25,000.
Much of the grass roots efforts in the US are being driven by Turkish and Syrian communities who still maintain close ties to their homeland.
Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother on Friday as Turkey’s President said authorities should have reacted faster to the tragedy.
The Greenvale man is among three Australians reported killed in the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquakes that have killed more than 24,000 people.
Thousands came together across Melbourne on Friday to grieve and show solidarity for victims of the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquakes.
More than 74,000 people in Turkey alone have been injured by the quake,but miracle rescues are still taking place despite 1509 aftershocks.
Baby Aya is one of untold numbers of orphans left by the 7.8-magnitude quake and subsequent tremors,which killed more than 20,000 people in Syria and Turkey.