This live blog is closed, thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Turkey-Syria earthquakes on Monday, February 13.
This live blog is closed, thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Turkey-Syria earthquakes on Monday, February 13.
- Rescuers continue to pull out more survivors from the rubble in Turkey and Syria as the death toll from last week’s earthquakes topped 36,000.
- The quakes have killed at least 31,643 people in Turkey as of Monday, and 4,614 people in Syria.
- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to let the United Nations deliver aid to Syria through two more border crossings from Turkey for three months, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told a closed-door UN Security Council meeting, diplomats told the Reuters news agency.
- The UN aid chief has said rescue efforts are coming to a close and that the world has so far failed people in northwest Syria, saying survivors there “rightly feel abandoned”.
- The UN says up to 5.3 million people in Syria may be homeless after the earthquakes. Nearly 900,000 people are in urgent need of hot food in Turkey and Syria.
- In Syria, aid from government-held regions into the rebel-controlled territory has been held up by approval issues with the Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham armed group, according to the UN.
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