Thinly stretched rescue workers dug through the night into Wednesday morning to reach survivors trapped beneath the rubble of the devastating earthquakes that rocked southern Turkey and war-ravaged northern Syria two days ago.
The combined death toll rose to more than 9,500 across the two countries as the morning progressed, with expectations the grim figure will pass 11,000 before the day is out, making the quake the deadliest in more than a decade.
Previously a 2011 earthquake in Japan triggered a tsunami, killing nearly 20,000 people.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to travel to town of Pazarcik, the epicenter of the quake, and to the worst-hit province of Hatay on Wednesday, AP reports.
Rescue workers carry Yigit Cakmak, 8-years-old survivor at the site of a collapsed building 52 hours after the earthquake struck, on February 08, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey. (Burak…
