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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley

Survivors pulled from rubble 100 hours after quake as toll passes 24,000

A boy is carried out on a stretcher by search and rescue teams in the Turkish city of Antakya.
A boy is carried out on a stretcher by search and rescue teams in the Turkish city of Antakya on Friday. Photograph: Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

A second convoy of aid trucks has crossed into stricken north-western Syria from Turkey, as rescuers continued to pull survivors – including a newborn baby – from the rubble 100 hours after an earthquake that has killed more than 24,000 people.

Hundreds of thousands more people have been left homeless and short of food in often sub-zero winter conditions after 7.8- and 7.6-magnitude quakes struck within hours of each other on Monday. Dozens of countries have pledged help and sent emergency teams.

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