UN calls for aid as quake death toll passes 41,000

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 18, 2023 2:00 am

ISTANBUL, Turkey: The death toll from the earthquake that has devastated parts of Turkey and Syria exceeded 41,000 on Friday as the United Nations appealed for $1 billion to address a growing humanitarian crisis.

Eleven days after the quake — now one of the 10 deadliest in the past 100 years — Turkish rescuers pulled a 17-year-old girl and a woman in her 20s out of the rubble.

OUR DAILY BREAD Residents wait in a queue outside a bakery that gives out free bread in Samandag, south of Hatay on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, 10 days after a 7.8-magnitude quake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria. AFP PHOTO

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