Where are people staying after the earthquake? 'Shelter is a key priority at the moment' says the WHO's regional emergency director - adding that some are in tents, others in cars and temporary shelter 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Aftershocks are still being recorded in Turkey and Syria this evening, more than 12 hours after the first earthquake hit this morning.
He has described a feeling of helplessness as the walls moved around him inside his first-storey home - while his children slept nearby. "Once I arrived, I found tens of buildings totally destroyed in this village," he said. "Hundreds were under the rubble. Everybody was trying to do something."A reporter for A News, a Turkish outlet, was filming in the streets of the city of Malatya today when an aftershock hit.
"But when you are in a region such as this which is along the East Anatolian Fault, and we know earthquakes do occur- for example there was an earthquake in 1822 of magnitude 7.4 which killed 7,000 people in the city of Aleppo alone - that shows that this is definitely an earthquake-prone area. She added that Turkey is"very prone" to earthquakes due to its location, with numerous high-magnitude disasters in the past 50 years.'We cannot reach around 30 people': Man whose family is trapped under rubble says he continues to 'hope'
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