"There are more and more reports of clashes between different factions, shots have also been fired," said ISAR spokesperson Stefan Heine. Would resume their work as soon as Turkish civil protection Germany's Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) said they The German International Search and Rescue (ISAR) and Two German aid groups are the latest organisations to suspend operations in southern Turkey, citing the worsening security situation there following Monday's earthquake. Turkish officials have not reported clashes in the region following the quake, but President Erdogan earlier said that the government would take action against those involved in looting and other crimes In Turkey, two German aid groups and the Austrian army have suspended their operations over concern about the worsening security situation The BBC's Quentin Sommerville is in Syria, where the White Helmets group have told him the international community "has blood on its hands" over not sending aid The UN's aid chief has told the BBC that "a conclusion is needed on when to call off the rescue effort", adding that the natural disaster is the worst he's ever seen Some 24.4 million people in both countries have been affected, according to Turkish officials and the United Nations cites by Reuters, in an area spanning roughly 450 km (280 miles)Ī family of five have reportedly been pulled from the rubble in Turkey five days after the quake, but despite some miraculous rescues, hope of finding many more survivors is fading The death toll has now exceeded 25,000 - including 21,848 people who have died in Turkey and a reported 3,553 in Syria, where new figures have not been released since Friday We'll be pausing our coverage shortly, but before we do, here are the latest developments: We don't know where they are.Rescue crews in Turkey and Syria are continuing to search beneath the rubble for survivors of Monday's devastating earthquakes. When we're out I don't see the rest of the family. We put them on our back and take them out. And then went back with my brother to get my two aunts, they are old, out of the building. So I take all my daughters, and my brother's wife, his kids, my dad and my mom to the park. "And it was heavy, heavy, heavy rain, and cold. We make all the kids go out, one by one." I try to get my daughters out of the building. "I heard a big noise, and the quake begins. Just to feel that I have something from Syria." I took my brother's prosthesis with me to keep it with me. My brother is Shaheed, and I keep his prosthesis because he was an amputee before his dying. "The first thing I took out from my home my brother's prosthesis. On how she recovered things from her home before it collapsed "We lost them, but we didn't lose their faces, and their actions, and all of the things they shared with us." Ten students from Antakya are Karam House students. "I have my cousin, I have my friends, four. Eight members of her uncle's family died under the rubble. Shikhani says that in Antakya, every family lost family members. We lost them, but we didn't lose their faces, and their actions, and all of the things they shared with us. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Soon she'll be in a new home that the Karam Foundation has found for her in Reyhanli, Turkey. There she's staying with four other families in a friend's house. In a new conversation with Morning Edition, Shikhani spoke to Leila Fadel from Bursa, Turkey. Shikhani is a teacher at a school for other Syrian refugees, funded and run by the Karam Foundation. Arrest warrants were issued to contractors and others connected to the collapsed buildings. Her building was one of at least 173,000 that were reduced to rubble or severely damaged by the quakes in Turkey. She also gently walked through her damaged home to get things she needed before the building finally collapsed. And I don't belong here."Īlmost every day for the last three weeks, she returned to Antakya to help search and rescue workers recover the bodies of her uncle's family. "I look at the faces, the streets, all of these things. But I have the biggest pain that I don't belong to here," she said.
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