Rescue workers fanned across Turkey and Syria Tuesday, in a second day of racing to find survivors from the massive earthquake that leveled thousands of buildings across the region, and sent the confirmed death toll soaring past 5,000 people.
. The news wires reported that a relative said the baby had been found still connected by her umbilical cord to her mother, who had died along with the rest of her immediate family when the house collapsed in Monday's earthquake.
The toll from the quake and aftershocks devastated a region already suffering from more than a decade of civil war in Syria, a conflict that has spurred more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees into Turkey. An estimated 4.1 million people in the affected region were already receiving United Nations humanitarian assistance.
On Tuesday, NPR reached Antakya, Turkey, and found a city built over many years to be devastated by about 80 seconds of earthquake.Outside a half-toppled building, a woman told NPR her 42-year-old son was alive but trapped in the rubble and she was trying to get rescue workers to pull him out. Scenes like this are unfolding in both countries in a desperate search for survivors, with time passing quickly and obstacles in the way.
Humanitarian groups in the region said the only crossing between Turkey and Syria approved by the U.N. for transporting international aid has been unusable since the earthquake struck, further hampering efforts.Earthquake survivors gather to collect supplies at a diaper distribution in Hatay, Turkey, on Tuesday, a day after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast.Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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