![]() Tánaiste Micheál Martin on Monday announced €2 million in emergency assistance from Ireland. Unicef Ireland, which has launched an emergency fundraising appeal, said it was concerned that the number of children killed and injured could grow over the coming days. ”My nephews and nieces – they have lost their mother – they want food and they want someone to look after them and I feel I could do that but yet I can’t because I’m here.” “It’s extremely hard for me because I feel that I can’t help,” she said, through an interpreter. Sabrina Dourmash told RTÉ News she had been on a video call with her mother just hours before disaster struck. They had been trying to escape their apartment in Aleppo when it collapsed. Another two of the woman’s relatives also died in the earthquake. In the rebel-held areas of northern Syria, rescuers workers toiled through the night to find civilians still trapped under the rubble, while others attempted to find shelter in the freezing rain.Īmong those killed were the mother of a Syrian woman living in a refugee centre in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon. “The infrastructure is damaged, the roads that we used to use for humanitarian work are damaged, we have to be creative in how to get to the people … but we are working hard,” UN resident co-ordinator El-Mostafa Benlamlih told Reuters. A senior UN humanitarian official said fuel shortages in Syria and the harsh winter weather were also creating obstacles to its response. In Syria, the effects of the quake were compounded by the destruction brought on by more than 11 years of civil war. This is more than an earthquake, this is a disaster,” he said. ![]() “We often define major earthquakes as disasters. Murat Harun Öngören, a coordinator with Akut, Turkey’s largest civil society aid and rescue organisation, said efforts to reach those affected across southern Turkey had been severely impeded by the cold weather and icy conditions – as well as the sheer size of the affected area. This is more than an earthquake, this is a disaster ![]() We often define major earthquakes as disasters. According to the Turkish authorities, some 380,000 were in government shelters or hotels others had sought safety in shopping malls, stadiums, mosques and community centres. ![]() Turkey’s disaster management agency said it had received 11,342 reports of collapsed buildings – of which 5,775 had been confirmed – while more than 8,000 people had been pulled from the debris. She added: “We don’t have a clear picture of when it will resume.” A spokesperson for the United Nations office for the co-ordination of humanitarian assistance said the flow of critical aid from Turkey to north-west Syria had been temporarily halted on Tuesday morning as a result of damage to roads and other logistical issues. ![]()
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