Children pulled from rubble as Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 9,500
Volunteers stand on rubble of a destroyed building in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey on February 7, 2023, a day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast. Violent earthquakes in Syria and Turkey had by Wednesday claimed 7,800 lives. PHOTO | ADEM ALTAN | AFP
Heartrending scenes of a new-born plucked alive from the rubble and a broken father clutching his dead daughter's hand have laid bare the human cost of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey that by Wednesday had claimed over 9,500 lives.
