Türkiye quake death toll tops 35,000
The death toll from a catastrophic earthquake that hit Türkiye and Syria climbed above 35,000 on February 13, with search and rescue teams starting to wind down their work.
Officials and medics said 31,643 people had died in Türkiye and 3,581 in Syria from last Monday’s 7.8-magnitude tremor, bringing the confirmed total to 35,224.
A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southeast Türkiye and Syria on February 6, toppling buildings and sending panicked residents pouring outside in a cold winter night.
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More than 11,000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria are now known to have been killed in Monday’s earthquakes.
Families in some badly-hit areas have said the slow speed of rescue efforts means they have had no help digging to find relatives.
Erdogan acknowledged there’d been difficulties with the initial response but blamed delays on damaged roads and airports.
In Syria, the White Helmet group who are leading efforts to rescue people in rebel-held areas, say time is running out to save people.
(BBC News)
China’s finance minister and its central bank governor will attend a roundtable with other creditors and some borrowing countries in February in India, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said in a CBS 60 Minutes interview on Sunday.
“China has to change its policies because low income countries cannot pay,” she said.
“What we are working towards is to bring all creditors, the traditional creditors from advanced economies, new creditors like China, Saudi Arabia, India, as well as the private sector, and put them around the table with the debtor countries.”
Georgieva said last month the first such gathering will take place on the sidelines of a meeting of Group of 20 finance officials in India.
Georgieva, the first person from an emerging market economy to head the International Monetary Fund, has said debt relief was critical for heavily indebted nations to avoid cuts in social services and other repercussions.
“China is going to participate at the level of minister of finance and the governor of People’s Bank of China,” she told 60 Minutes.
(CNBC)
A rescue operation is under way across much of southern Turkey and northern Syria following a huge earthquake that has killed more than 2,300 people.
The 7.8 magnitude quake struck near Gaziantep in the early hours of Monday while people were asleep.
A new 7.5-magnitude tremor hit at around 13:30 local time (10:30 GMT), which officials said was “not an aftershock”.
The country’s disaster agency says some 1,500 people were killed in Turkey alone after the first quake, and more than 5,300 were wounded.
Syrian authorities are reporting 810 dead and more than 2,000 injured, according to the AFP news agency.
Rescuers are racing to save people trapped beneath the rubble after hundreds of buildings collapsed in both countries.
World leaders have pledged to send aid after Turkey issued an international appeal for help.
Millions of people across Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus and Israel felt the earthquake.
(BBC News)