Nine days have passed since earthquakes tore through Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, and rescue operations are slowing as survivors become more unlikely by the hour. The death toll is more than 41,000.
“We are facing one of the greatest natural disasters not only in our country, but also in the history of humanity,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a televised speech Tuesday in Ankara.
In Syria, leader Bashar al-Assad’s regime opened the Bab al-Salam and Al Ra’ee border crossings to aid, a U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesperson said, and a convoy from the United Nations crossed into northwestern Syria through Bab al-Salam.
Here’s the latest on the aftermath of the earthquakes:
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Leo Sands and Maham Javaid contributed to this report.
