Today’s key updates:
Here is what you need to know as today’s rescue efforts face sub-zero temperatures and the death toll across Syria and Turkey continues to climb.
- Snow and ice are expected throughout the week as hundreds of thousands face another night outside for fear of further tremors and weakened buildings.
- Criticism is mounting in Turkey over reports of delays in emergency response and distribution of humanitarian aid, despite President Erdogan’s public appearances.
- Aid deliveries at the Syrian border continue to face delays
- Twitter has been blocked on several internet providers while Erdogan visited badly-struck areas
- Survivors told the New Arab’s sister site al-Araby al-Jadeed that scenes of the earthquake were ‘like judgement day’.
- Amid stories of devastation, rescue workers across Syria and Turkey have saved many families trapped for days inside collapsed buildings in bitter winter conditions.