Death toll rises after fresh earthquake hits Turkey-Syria border

Six radical were killed successful an earthquake which struck the borderline portion of Turkey and Syria, CNN Turk reported connected Tuesday, 2 weeks aft a larger quake killed much than 47,000 radical and damaged oregon destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.

Monday's quake, this clip with a magnitude of 6.4, was centered adjacent the confederate Turkish metropolis of Antakya and was felt successful Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. It struck astatine a extent of 10 km (6.2 miles), the European Mediterranean Seismological Center said.

CNN Turk showed a rescue squad climbing a ladder to participate 1 gathering wherever immoderate radical had been trapped aft the latest tremor. It said the quake struck portion radical were successful the already damaged gathering to retrieve possessions earlier it was demolished.

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 294 radical were injured successful Monday evening's earthquake, with 18 earnestly wounded and transported to hospitals successful Adana and Dortyol.

Patients were evacuated from immoderate wellness facilities that had remained successful cognition aft the monolithic tremors 2 weeks ago, arsenic cracks had emerged successful the buildings, Koca said connected Twitter.

In Samandag, wherever the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, oregon AFAD, had reported 1 idiosyncratic dormant connected Monday, residents said much buildings collapsed but astir of the municipality had already fled aft the archetypal earthquakes. Mounds of debris and discarded furnishings lined the dark, abandoned streets.

Muna Al Omar said she was successful a structure successful a parkland successful cardinal Antakya erstwhile the crushed started heaving again.

"I thought the world was going to divided unfastened nether my feet," she said connected Monday, crying arsenic she held her 7-year-old lad successful her arms.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said connected a sojourn to Turkey on Monday that Washington would assistance "for arsenic agelong arsenic it takes" arsenic rescue operations successful the aftermath of the Feb. 6 earthquake and its aftershocks coiled down, and the absorption turned to toward structure and reconstruction work.

The decease toll from the quakes 2 weeks agone roseate to 41,156 in Turkey, AFAD said connected Monday, and it was expected to ascent further, with 385,000 apartments known to person been destroyed oregon earnestly damaged and galore radical inactive missing.

President Tayyip Erdogan said operation enactment connected astir 200,000 apartments successful 11 earthquake-hit provinces of Turkey would begin adjacent month.

Total U.S. humanitarian assistance to enactment the earthquake effect in Turkey and Syria has reached $185 million, the U.S. State Department said.

Among the survivors of the earthquakes are astir 356,000 large women who urgently request entree to wellness services, the U.N. intersexual and reproductive wellness bureau has said.

They see 226,000 women in Turkey and 130,000 successful Syria, astir 38,800 of whom volition present successful the adjacent month. Many of them were sheltering successful camps oregon exposed to freezing temperatures and struggling to get nutrient oregon cleanable water.

In Syria, already shattered by much than a decennary of civilian war, astir deaths person been successful the northwest, wherever the United Nations said 4,525 radical were killed. The country is controlled by insurgents astatine warfare with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, complicating assistance efforts.

Syrian officials accidental 1,414 radical were killed successful areas nether the power of Assad's government.

Medical foundation Medecins Sans Frontieres said a convoy of 14 of its trucks had entered northwestern Syria from Turkey on Sunday to assistance successful rescue operations.

The World Food Program has besides been pressuring authorities successful that portion to halt blocking entree for assistance from Syrian government-controlled areas.

As of Monday morning, 197 trucks loaded with U.N. humanitarian assistance had entered northwest Syria done 2 borderline crossings, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

Thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkey have returned to their homes successful northwest Syria to get successful interaction with relatives affected by the devastation.

At the Turkish Cilvegozu borderline crossing, hundreds of Syrians lined up starting aboriginal connected Monday to cross.

Mustafa Hannan, who dropped disconnected his large woman and 3-year-old son, said helium saw astir 350 radical waiting.

The 27-year-old car electrician said his household was leaving for a fewer months aft their location successful Antakya collapsed, taking up a pledge by authorities allowing them to walk up to six months successful Syria without losing the accidental to instrumentality to Turkey.

"I'm disquieted they won't beryllium allowed back," helium said. "We've already been separated from our nation. Are we going to beryllium separated from our families present too? If I rebuild present but they can't return, my beingness volition beryllium lost."