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Rescue workers pressed their search Thursday across Turkey and Syria for survivors from this week’s massive earthquake and aftershocks as the window to find people alive began to close.
Rescue crews braved freezing temperatures to pull bodies from the rubble of thousands of buildings that have toppled throughout southern Turkey and northern Syria. The 72-hour mark since Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake has now passed, a critical time window that experts say is when most survivors from disasters are found.
More than three days after the quake and aftershocks hit the two countries, the number of dead surpassed 16,000, according to The Associated Press. Turkey’s government said that in addition to nearly 13,000 people killed, more than 60,000 have been injured.
