Turkey Syria Earthquake: quake toll passes 20,000

More than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria, though the UN warns the disaster’s full extent is still unclear. Rescuers are still searching the rubble for survivors, but hopes are fading almost 100 hours since the tremors struck.
Freezing conditions threaten the lives of thousands of survivors without shelter water and food. turkey’s president called the quake” the disaster of the century.”