Quake survivors wait on for news of missing in Turkiye and Syria, but hopes fade; death toll almost 25,000

Rescuers work as the search for survivors continues in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey February 11, 2023. - Reuters

ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, Feb 11 (Reuters): Rescuers in Turkey pulled more people from the rubble early on Saturday, five days after the country's most devastating earthquake since 1939, but hopes were fading in Turkey and Syria that many more survivors would be found.

In Kahramanmaras, close to the quake's epicentre in southern Turkey, there were fewer visible rescue operations amid the smashed concrete mounds of fallen houses and apartment blocks, while ever more trucks rumbled through the streets shipping out debris.