Mother and baby girl rescued after Turkey earthquake finally reunited
The tiny girl was rescued from rubble in southern Turkey 128 hours after the quake struck, and it was initially believed that both her parents died in the disaster.
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The tiny girl was rescued from rubble in southern Turkey 128 hours after the quake struck, and it was initially believed that both her parents died in the disaster.
A U.N.-backed probe has acknowledged a "complete failure" in the emergency earthquake response, which was stymied by Syria's seemingly endless civil war.
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The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday, near its shared border with northern Syria.
The secretary of state lauded American citizens' quick response to help earthquake survivors and pledged another $100M in U.S. government support.
In a matter of moments, the 7.8 earthquake in southwest Turkey and northern Syria erased more lives than some wars over years of battle.
Christian Atsu, the Ghana international forward who played for Premier League clubs Chelsea and Newcastle, has died in the earthquake in Turkey.
One harrowing video shows a dust-covered man being pulled from debris in Turkey asking to borrow a phone to check on his family.
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"My heart is burning," one woman told CBS News as she sat by her young niece and nephew, whose mom, dad, brothers and sisters all died.
Life for thousands of Syrians displaced by civil war was already grim when the massive quakes struck neighboring Turkey. Many have lost everything, all over again.
As the death toll approached 40,000, there was hope that more aid might finally reach survivors in war-torn Syria with border crossings being opened.
Experts say the window for saving people trapped under collapsed buildings has nearly closed.
"The temptation is to give blankets and teddy bears and strollers and goods," Power said. "But actually what the organizations on the ground most need is money."
Hopes of finding anyone alive beneath the rubble have all but vanished. But the struggle has only just begun for survivors.
Turkish officials have detained or issued arrest warrants for some 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods.
Satellite images from the NASA Earth Observatory show the scale of destruction in Turkey and Syria.
She will be cared for by her father's uncle, whose household of 11 is living in a tent after their home was also destroyed in the earthquakes.
When she was rescued, baby Aya was still connected to her mother by her umbilical cord, and none of her immediate family survived.
The 10-day-old baby didn't cry as rescue workers pulled him from under the wreckage of his collapsed building.
The death toll in the Turkey-Syria border region keeps rising and frigid temperatures aren't helping survivors clinging to life under rubble or coping out in the open.
The U.S. government's international aid agency has promised $85 million in help for the quake victims, but the "window is closing to find survivors."
More than three days after the devastating quakes hit Turkey and Syria, experts say a "critical" survival window is closing fast amid harsh winter conditions.
"We cleared the dust and found the baby with the umbilical cord (intact), so we cut it and my cousin took her to hospital," rescuer says.
Rescuers desperately searching for survivors under rubble faced the grim challenges of stretched resources and winter conditions.
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Images shared by Syria's state-run news agency showed blood on carpets, holes in the walls, shattered windows and fire damage.
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