Turkey-Syria earthquake: Freezing weather adds to despair as quake toll passes 20,000
Written by Olarotimi Oshin on February 10, 2023
More than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, though the UN warns the disaster’s full extent is still unclear.
Rescuers are still searching rubble for survivors, but hopes are fading more than four days since the first quake.
Freezing conditions threaten the lives of thousands of survivors who are now without shelter, water and food.
Turkey’s president called the quake “the disaster of the century”.
