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Rescue workers fanned across Turkey and Syria Tuesday in a second day of work racing to find survivors from the massive earthquake and multiple aftershocks that leveled thousands of buildings across the region and sent the confirmed death toll soaring past 5,000 people.
Freezing winter temperatures and dozens of aftershocks from Monday morning’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake hampered the work to sift through the rubble of buildings and find survivors who are at risk of suffering from hypothermia as temperatures dip below 27 degrees Fahrenheit.
In the city of Adana, where at least 11 buildings had collapsed, NPR’s Ruth Sherlock stood outside a 15-story residential high-rise that had collapsed. Worried relatives watched rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble in freezing temperatures and Sherlock spoke to two elderly women and a man who were embracing each other and crying after one of their daughters had died.
