INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Rescue groups say they are still hearing voices from under the debris more than a week after the destructive earthquake of 7.8 magnitude
brought thousands of high-rise buildings crashing down in southern Turkey.In live footage on CNN, rescue employees could be seen in two
areas in the Kahramanmaras area where they were trying to rescue survivors, consisting of 3 sisters.In what has been hailed as incredible
saves, in the same area, an 18-year-old young boy and a male were pulled out alive from under debris on Tuesday &-- a day after rescuers
conserved a 10-year-old girl.By Tuesday, the death toll had however risen to over 37,000 as more than 9,200 foreign rescue workers assisted
Turkish groups recover survivors and bodies.But as rescue employees continue to search for survivors, hope is fading quick and a few of the
focus is now turning to assisting the hundreds of thousands of homeless individuals who are dealing with freezing temperature levels and
hunger.For Turkey and Syria, Monday&& s earthquake has left them with an alarming humanitarian disaster.AFP reported that the Turkish
government said at least 1.2 million people have been housed in student residences, more than 206,000 camping tents have been erected and
400,000 victims evacuated from the ravaged areas.In a camping tent city near the quake&& s epicentre in Kahramanmaras, father-of-four
Serkan Tatoglu, 41, described how his family was haunted by their losses which they suffer the aftershocks -of which there have been over
2,000 considering that Monday&& s deadly quake.Speaking to AFP, Tatoglu said his six-year-old son, the youngest, keeps asking: ‘& lsquo;
Dad, are we going to pass away?&&& & Turkey & s Vice-President Fuat Oktay on the other hand stated Tuesday that 574 kids pulled from
collapsed structures were found without any making it through parents.Only 76 had been returned to other family members.One voluntary
psychologist working in a children&& s support centre in hard-hit Hatay province stated various parents were frantically trying to find
&& We get a barrage of calls about missing kids,& & Hatice Goz said.Turkey&& s employers & association, Turkonfed, on the other hand
reported Monday that the financial cost of the catastrophe might be as much as US$ 84.1 billion, with nearly US$ 71 billion of that for
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