Earthquake Death Toll Soars Past 11,000 As US Sanctions On Syria Block Humanitarian Aid

– Earthquake Death Toll Soars Past 11,000 As US Sanctions On Syria Block Humanitarian Aid:

Health authorities working in Turkey announced Wednesday that the death toll from Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks has soared past 11,000 dead – but more casualties are expected given rescue teams still haven’t accessed possibly hundreds or thousands more believed buried under the rubble.

Additionally, vast swathes of deeply impacted northern Syria still have yet to receive any emergency aid. “Where are the tents, where are food trucks?” one 64-year old woman identified as Melek in Antakya said. She said she’d yet to see any rescue teams in her part of southern Turkey, near Syria. “We survived the earthquake, but we will die here due to hunger or cold here.”

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