Rescuers In Turkey Earthquake Pull Out Survivors Alive After 72 hours | Turkey Earthquake News Live
Search and rescue operations in quake-hit Turkish cities continued overnight and in the early hours on Thursday (February 9) with rescuers pulling people out alive from the rubble, despite hopes fading for survivors.
The death toll in Turkey jumped to 12,873 by Thursday morning. In Syria, already devastated by nearly 12 years of civil war, more than 3,000 people have died, according to the government and a rescue service in the rebel-held northwest.
A Turkish official said the disaster posed "very serious difficulties" to holding an election scheduled for May 14 in which President Tayyip Erdogan has been expected face the toughest challenge in his two decades in power.
On the ground, many people in Turkey and Syria spent a third night sleeping outside or in cars in freezing winter temperatures, their homes destroyed or so shaken by the quakes they were too afraid to re-enter.
The earthquake, which struck in the dead of night and was followed by powerful aftershocks, is on course to be Turkey's deadliest since 1999, when a similarly powerful tremor killed more than 17,000.
While rescuers raced against time to find survivors, public criticism has mounted over a lack of equipment, expertise and support in rescue efforts.
The death toll from both countries was expected to rise as hundreds of collapsed buildings in many cities have become tombs for people who had been asleep when the quake hit.
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