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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Kemal Aslan, Maya Gebeily and Khalil Ashawi

Children rescued from ruins days after earthquake, but death toll tops 23,700

Turkish boy Poyraz is carried to an ambulance after being rescued alive from rubbles in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey February 10, 2023. REUTERS/Berkcan Zengin

Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people out from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week's huge earthquake.

The confirmed death toll from the deadliest quake in the region in two decades stood at more than 23,700 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria four days after it hit.

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