2 women rescued from rubble as quake toll tops 24,150

ANTAKYA: Rescuers in Turkey pulled two women alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings after they had been trapped for 122 hours following the region’s deadliest quake in two decades, authorities said today. The death toll exceeded 24,150 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria a day after Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to Monday’s huge earthquake. Earlier, the World Food Programme said it was running out of stocks in rebel-held northwest Syria as the state of war complicated relief efforts. A similarly powerful earthquake in northwest Turkey in 1999 killed more than 17,000 killed in 1999. In the Samandag district of Turkey, rescuers crouched under concrete slabs and whispered “Inshallah” – “God willing” – as they carefully reached into the rubble and plucked out a 10-day-old newborn.
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