Rescue efforts continue as UN warns hundreds of thousands of people urgently need food in wake of disaster
aid chief Martin Griffiths described on Saturday the devastating earthquake that hit southernSpeaking during a news briefing in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş, Griffiths also described Turkey’s response to the disaster as “extraordinary”.aid would go to both government and opposition-held areas, but that things with this regard were “not clear yet”.
The other was an injured 55-year-old, identified as Masallah Cicek, who was brought out from the debris of a collapsed building in Diyarbakır, the largest city in south-east Turkey, the agency said. About 80,000 people were being treated in hospital, while 1.05 million left homeless by the quakes huddled in temporary shelters, the Turkish vice-president, Fuat Oktay, told reporters overnight.Our main goal is to ensure that they return to a normal life by delivering permanent housing to them within one year, and that they heal their pain as soon as possible.”
The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, made his first reported trip to affected areas since the quake, visiting a hospital in Aleppo with his wife Asma, state media said. His government approved deliveries of humanitarian aid across the front lines of the country’s 12-year civil war, a move that could speed help for millions of desperate people, Reuters reports.
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