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Rescuers toil on in rubble of Turkey and Syria, survivors ever harder to find

Rescuers toil on in rubble of Turkey and Syria, survivors ever harder to find

MAYA GEBEILY, ALI KUCUKGOCMEN and KHALIL ASHAWI RESCUERS pulled some survivors from the rubble, five days after Turkey's most devastating earthquake since 1939 that also killed thousands of people in Syria, but hopes were fading for many more to be found. In Kahramanmaras, close to the epicentre in south Turkey, there were fewer visible rescue operations amid the smashed concrete mounds of fallen houses and apartment blocks where trucks rumbled through streets shipping out debris. The death toll kept growing - exceeding 25,300 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, facing questions over earthquake planning and response…
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