'I have two nephews in the wreckage behind me. Around two o'clock yesterday, this building collapsed. There are possibly hundreds more of buildings like this,' Ahmet Alinak said expressing frustration at no help from the Turkish authorities
The workers explained they could not reach the room from the front and needed an excavator to remove the wall first.
In Geneva, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said: "The earthquakes...may have killed thousands of children."Syrian refugees in northwest Syria and in Turkey were among the most vulnerable people affected, Elder said. At least 1,020 people were killed in Syria's opposition-held northwest and 2,300 injured with the toll expected to "rise dramatically", the White Helmets rescue team said.
"The infrastructure is damaged, the roads that we used to use for humanitarian work are damaged," U.N. resident coordinator El-MostafaA fire that engulfed hundreds of shipping containers at Turkey's Iskenderun port was put out, the defence ministry said, but it was not clear when operations there would resume.
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