Turkey earthquake LIVE: British sniffer dogs find survivors trapped in earthquake rubble


The earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on February 6 have now killed more than 34,000 people.

The latest figures from Turkey state that 29,605 people have died over the last week.

And in Syria, 4,500 have died, bringing the total between the neighbouring nations up to 34,105.

Authorities expect the total will only rise in the days to come, with the latest figure having already exceeded the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) suspected total deaths of 20,000.

But rescuers continue to find people buried under buildings more than a week after they were trapped.

CNN Turk reported this morning that rescuers pulled a woman alive from a buildings this morning.

Another team was burrowing to reach a woman they believed was a trapped grandmother, a mother and a baby.



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