BAB AL-HAWA Border Crossing, Syria: The death toll from the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria kept on climbing Thursday (Friday in Manila), topping 21,000 as the first UN aid reached Syrian rebel-held zones but hopes of finding more survivors faded.

The chief of the World Health Organization said he was on his way to Syria, as bitter cold hampered the search of thousands of flattened buildings and threatened the lives of many quake victims who are without shelter and drinking water.

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