Turkey earthquake: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that last week’s earthquake was the country’s worst disaster in a century, killing more than 35,418 people.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a video message thanking countries that helped the disaster-hit country: “Rescuers have pulled more than 8,000 people alive from the rubble since the strong earthquake struck Turkey.”
The President further informed that more than 81,000 people injured in the earthquake in Turkey have been discharged from hospitals.
Meanwhile, in Syria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called the disaster a “tragedy affecting millions of people”.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “The complex crisis of conflict, COVID, cholera, the economic fallout and now the earthquake has taken an intolerable toll.”
Tedros said WHO experts were waiting to enter northwestern Syria “where we are told the impact is worse.”
Visiting the Turkish-Syrian border on Sunday, Martin Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said Syrians are “looking for international help that hasn’t arrived yet.”
“We have so far let the people in northwest Syria down. They rightly feel abandoned,” he said, adding, “My duty and our obligation is to fix this failure as quickly as possible.”
,with inputs from agencies,
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