Hope for earthquake survivors ‘dwindling by the hour’ in war-torn Syria

The chance of finding survivors alive in Turkiye and Syria is diminishing by the hour as temperatures drop below freezing (Picture: Frontline in Focus for the IRC)

An international aid agency whose staff are among the survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria has warned that the hope of rescuing people alive is fading by the hour.  

The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) office in north-west Syria has been rendered inaccessible and its workers on the ground are among those impacted by the devastation.