“We knew there were people under the ruins,” Yasser Nini, a team leader, told The Associated Press. “We heard their cries, but we did not have the equipment to rescue them.”
“Areas of northwest Syria felt abandoned, because no search and rescue teams were able to enter,” Bahia Zrikem of the Norwegian Refugee Council said earlier this week.
The death toll from the massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 rose above 12,000, official data showed, with rescue workers on February 8 still searching for trapped survivors. the devastating earthquakes In his first televised address since the temblors, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that “the scale of the disaster and the duties we must undertake are much greater than available resources.”
“The international community failed the Syrian people by not reacting fast enough, and not supporting the search and rescue teams,” Zrikem said. The Norwegian Refugee Council was founded in the aftermath of World War II and operates in 40 countries.The death toll from the massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 rose above 12,000, official data showed, with rescue workers on February 8 still searching for trapped survivors.
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