This earthquake has struck 2 weeks after 2 devastating quakes rocked Syria and Turkey. (File)
Antakya, Turkey:
One other earthquake struck the border area of Turkey and Syria on Monday, simply two weeks after the world was devastated by a bigger quake which killed greater than 47,000 folks and broken or destroyed a whole bunch of 1000’s of properties.
Monday’s quake, this time with a magnitude of 6.3, was centred close to the southern Turkish metropolis of Antakya and was felt in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon.
It struck at a depth of simply two km (1.2 miles), the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) stated, doubtlessly magnifying its affect at floor degree.
Muna Al Omar stated she was in a tent in a park in central Antakya when the most recent quake hit.
“I believed the earth was going to separate open beneath my ft,” she stated, crying as she held her 7-year-old son in her arms.
Hours earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated on a go to to Turkey that Washington would assist “for so long as it takes” as rescue operations within the wake of the Feb. 6 earthquake and its aftershocks had been winding down, and focus turned to in the direction of pressing shelter and reconstruction work.
The loss of life rely from the quakes two weeks in the past rose to 41,156 in Turkey, the nation’s Catastrophe and Emergency Administration Authority AFAD stated on Monday, and it was anticipated to climb additional, with 3,85,000 residences recognized to have been destroyed or significantly broken and many individuals nonetheless lacking.
President Tayyip Erdogan stated building work on practically 2,00,000 residences in 11 earthquake-hit provinces of Turkey would start subsequent month.
Complete U.S. humanitarian help to assist the earthquake response in Turkey and Syria has reached $185 million, the U.S. State Division stated.
Among the many survivors of the earthquakes are about 3,56,000 pregnant girls who urgently want entry to well being providers, the U.N. sexual and reproductive well being company (UNFPA) has stated.
They embody 2,26,000 girls in Turkey and 1,30,000 in Syria, about 38,800 of whom will ship within the subsequent month. Lots of them had been sheltering in camps or uncovered to freezing temperatures and struggling to get meals or clear water.
Syria Support
In Syria, already shattered by greater than a decade of civil conflict, most deaths have been within the northwest, the place the United Nations stated 4,525 folks had been killed. The realm is managed by insurgents at conflict with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, complicating help efforts.
Syrian officers say 1,414 folks had been killed in areas beneath the management of Assad’s authorities.
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) stated a convoy of 14 of its vans had entered northwestern Syria from Turkey on Sunday to help in rescue operations.
The World Meals Programme (WFP) has additionally been pressuring authorities in that area to cease blocking entry for help from Syrian government-controlled areas.
As of Monday morning, 197 vans loaded with U.N. humanitarian help had entered northwest Syria by way of two border crossings, a spokesperson for the U.N. Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated.
Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Turkey have returned to their properties in northwest Syria to get in contact with kin affected by the devastation.
On the Turkish Cilvegozu border crossing, a whole bunch of Syrians lined up beginning early on Monday to cross.
Mustafa Hannan, who dropped off his pregnant spouse and 3-year-old son, stated he noticed about 350 folks ready.
The 27-year-old automobile electrician stated his household was leaving for a couple of months after their residence in Antakya collapsed, taking on a pledge by authorities permitting them to spend as much as six months in Syria with out dropping the possibility to return to Turkey.
“I am frightened they will not be allowed again,” he stated. “We have already been separated from our nation. Are we going to be separated from our households now too? If I rebuild right here however they cannot return, my life will likely be misplaced.”
(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
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