“For now, the name of hope in Kahramanmaras is Arif Kaan,” a Turkish television reporter proclaimed as the dramatic rescue was broadcast to the country. In Turkey’s Kahramanmaras, rescuers pulled a 3-year-old boy, Arif Kaan, from the rubble. A crying newborn still connected by the umbilical cord to her deceased mother was rescued in Syria on Monday. Stories of rescues continued to provide hope that some people still trapped might be found alive. Mazen Alloush, an official on the Syrian side of the border, said 20 more bodies were on their way, adding that all of them were Syrian refugees who fled civil war. Syrian officials said the bodies of more than 100 Syrians who died during the earthquake in Turkey were brought back home for burial. That brought the overall total to 11,000 since Monday’s earthquake and multiple strong aftershocks. ![]() The Syrian Health Ministry, meanwhile, said the death toll in government-held areas climbed past 1,200, while at least 1,400 people have in the rebel-held northwest, according to the volunteer first responders known as the White Helmets. ![]() Turkey’s president said the country’s death toll passed 8,500. The region was already beset by more than a decade of civil war in Syria that has displaced millions in that country and left them reliant on humanitarian aid and sent millions more to seek refuge in Turkey. “Our hands cannot pick up anything because of the cold,” said Pikal. ![]() Meanwhile, cold hampered the efforts of those who were there, including volunteers. Road closures and damage in the region made it hard to access all the areas that need help, he said, and there was a shortage of rescuers where he was. “No one is coming out alive from the rubble.” “As of today there is no hope left in Malatya,” Pikal said by telephone. Pikal, who took part in the rescue efforts, said he thinks at least some of the victims froze to death as temperatures dipped to minus 6 degrees Celsius (21 Fahrenheit). In the Turkish city of Malatya, bodies were placed side by side on the ground, covered in blankets, while rescuers waited for funeral vehicles to pick them up, according to former journalist Ozel Pikal, who said he saw eight bodies pulled from the ruins of a building. The move is in line with Islamic funeral rites which require a burial to take place as quickly as possible after a person’s death. The agency, known as AFAD, said unidentified victims would be buried following DNA tests, finger printing and after being photographed for future identification. At the same time, they said it was too soon to abandon hope for more rescues. ![]() But the scale of destruction from the earthquake and its powerful aftershocks was so immense and spread over such a wide area, including places isolated by Syria’s ongoing civil war, that many people were still awaiting help.Įxperts said the survival window for those trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings or otherwise unable to access water, food, protection from the elements or medical attention was closing rapidly. Search teams from more than two dozen countries have joined tens of thousands of local emergency personnel on the ground in Syria and Turkey. Amid calls for his government to send more help to the disaster zone, Erdogan conceded initial shortfalls in the response to Monday’s 7.8 magnitude quake but vowed no one would “be left in the streets.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan toured a “tent city” in hard-hit Kahramanmaras where people forced from their homes were living. The confirmed death toll from the world’s deadliest quake in more than a decade passed 11,000. Next alinea is copy pasted from that forumpost, the in all caps are links, the 1st one is working, but the second isn''t and that is for a couple of maps which totally deserve to be played in HD.With the hope of finding survivors fading, stretched rescue teams in Turkey and Syria searched Wednesday for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic earthquake. Progress update : Finished securing downloads of around 21 maps/packs from Talisa's 1st post of the QuakOne thread.Īlmost every link still seems to be working but not all :
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