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Newsday: 09/02/2023 05:06 GMT : Millions need help after devastating quake in Turkey and Syria

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09/02/2023 05:06 GMT : Millions need help after devastating quake in Turkey and Syria

Millions need help after devastating quake in Turkey and Syria

BBC World Service - Newsday, Millions need help after devastating quake in Turkey and Syria

Fears that many who survived the quake could die of cold and lack of facilities

Many people in southern Turkey and northern Syria have spent a third night in the open after Monday's earthquakes which have killed more than 15,000 people.

Large parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria have been devastated by Monday's earthquakes and millions of people need help. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been criticised to the not getting aid to the area quickly enough.

But the Turkish government has defended its response citing the unprecedented scale of the disaster.
  
And a defector from North Korea reports that there is desperate food shortages in the world's most secretive state.

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