The total of over 15,000 fatalities, the largest worldwide for an earthquake event in more than a decade, is expected to rise. Experts say the survival rate in an incident of this magnitude is below 25% after 72 hours.
Drone footage captured in Turkey and Syria shows the devastating damage caused by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed thousands.The search for survivors grew more desperate, the homeless problem more acute and the death toll rose sharply Wednesday as rescuers labored to find signs of life amid the rubble of Monday'sTurkey's disaster management agency said the country's death toll passed 12,000 early Thursday.
►A 13-year-old boy was rescued from the rubble on Wednesday, 55 hours after the quakes first struck, Turkish rescuers said. The boy was saved in Kahramanmaras, the quakes' epicenter, after three hours of intense digging. “We have already a very vulnerable situation; people already vulnerable, not capable of taking care of themselves…and all of a sudden comes this,” said El-Mostafa Benlamlih, U.N. resident coordinator for Syria.
Erdogan toured a tent city and pledged that no one would “be left in the streets.” He acknowledged the response had started slowly but dismissed criticism that the government needed to do more.
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