The death toll in government-held areas of Syria climbed over 800, with some 1,500 injured, according to the Health Ministry. Rescue workers pull out a survivor from the rubble of a destroyed building in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, a day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country, February 7, 2023. In Syria, the quake-affected area is divided between government-held territory and the country's last opposition-held enclave, which is surrounded by government forces and borders Turkey. Turkey's emergency management agency said the total number of deaths in the country had passed 5,400, with some 31,000 people injured. The death toll from the massive earthquakes that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria soared above 7,200 on Tuesday, and was still expected to rise as rescuers continued digging into buildings flattened by the temblors. 'We have activated the WHO network of emergency medical teams to provide essential health care for the injured and most vulnerable,' he added. 'It is now a race against time,' said World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. I know they're alive but there's no one to rescue them.' There's no one else to get them out,' said Ali Battal, in his 60s, his face streaked with blood and head swathed in a wool shawl against the bitter cold. 'My whole family is under there - my sons, my daughter, my son-in-law. The cold rain and snow were a risk both for people forced from their homes, who took refuge in mosques, schools or even bus shelters, and survivors buried under debris. Children are freezing from the cold.' People warm themselves next to a collapsed building in Malatya, Turkey, February 7, 2023, a day after powerful earthquakes hit the region.Ī winter storm was compounding the misery by rendering many roads - some of them damaged by the quake - almost impassable. 'For two days we haven't seen the state around here.

There is no state official here, for God's sake,' said Ali Sagiroglu in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras. 'I can't get my brother back from the ruins.

Search teams and relief supplies started pouring in Tuesday from dozens of nations, including the United States, but people in some of the areas of Turkey and Syria hit hardest by Monday's devastating earthquakes said they felt they had been left to fend for themselves.

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