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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Turkey finds a few more earthquake survivors as further rescue hopes fade

Tents set up as temporary shelters for people left homeless as rescue operations continue in Harim,  Idlib province, on Syria’s border with Turkey.
Tents set up as temporary shelters for people left homeless as rescue operations continue in Harim, Idlib province, on Syria’s border with Turkey. Photograph: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images

A diminishing number of survivors have been pulled from the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria as the death toll climbed to over 35,000 and UN aid officials pushed for more aid access to rebel-controlled north-west Syria, where only one crossing from Turkey was open.

Search and rescue teams began to wind down their work on Monday as hopes of finding anyone alive faded, but there were cheers in Turkish cities when people were freed after seven days under the rubble, including a young girl named Miray in Adıyaman and a 12-year-old boy named Kaan in southern Hatay province.

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