THE death toll from the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose as rescuers faced shortages of trucks, fuel and time. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey visited the area near the epicenter.
Three days after an earthquake devastated war-ravaged Syria, killing more than 12,000 people, the United Nations said on Wednesday that very little aid has trickled to government-held areas and it has been unable to send a single convoy of aid to opposition-held territory.
Nearly 11 million people inside Syria have been affected by the earthquake, according to the U.N. And 4 million of them rely on aid agencies for basic humanitarian needs like clean water and food.
A mother and two children were rescued in the province of Kahramanmaras, near the epicenter of the earthquake, 64 hours after it struck, the Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu reported.