JINDERIS: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that 35,418 people have died as a result of last week’s quakes, making the deadliest such disaster since the country’s founding 100 years ago. The massive Erzincan earthquake in 1939 resulted in the deaths of around 33,000 people. Erdogan said there had been 105,505 people injured as a result of the Feb. 6 quakes
The baby, named Aya - Arabic for a sign from God - has been at a hospital in north Syria ever since she was pulled from underneath the rubble with her umbilical cord still attached to her mother.
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