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Almost a week after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake shattered the lives of millions of people in a 100 square kilometre area of Turkey and Syria, the desperate hunt for survivors continues.
The earthquake struck before dawn last Monday as most people were at home in bed.
This Sunday the official death tally stands at 33,000, a figure that is sure to rise with so many homes in both countries reduced to rubble.
The earthquake struck areas of Syria under government control as well as rebel-held parts of the northwest of the country. One of the biggest challenges for relief agencies has been to negotiate the political landscape and in many areas the first aid from outside is only just trickling through.
However, Turkey has borne the brunt of known casualties. Antakya, a city once home to 400,000 inhabitants, has been almost completely destroyed.
Amidst the destruction and despair, rescue teams are still looking for survivors, and in some cases their efforts are still being rewarded.
When I ask if they have the energy to continue, they reply they must keep going because of their faith and their love for their country.
Some 13 million people have been directly affected by the disaster spread across an area that is larger than many European countries.
The situation in Antakya remains very, very chaotic with many roads, many streets completely blocked. And there are thousands, if not tens of thousands of people still under the rubble.
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The head of Russia's paramilitary Wagner group said on Sunday that his troops had taken the Ukrainian town of Krasna Hora, a few kilometres north of Bakhmut, a key city that Moscow has been trying to conquer for several months.
"Today, Wagner's assault units took the locality of Krasna Hora", Yevgeny Prigozhin was quoted as saying by his press service.
For more than six months, Wagner and the Russian army have been trying to capture Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, a town of limited strategic importance but which has gained great symbolic significance because of the long duration of the fighting.
Russian forces have been trying to encircle the city for the past few weeks. They have managed to cut off several roads that are vital for the supply of Ukrainian troops.
However, there appears to be increasing tensions between the paramilitary group and Moscow’s regular forces.
The Wagner group announced on 11 January that it had taken Soledar, a larger town not far from Krasna Hora.
But the Russian defence ministry took two days to announce the capture of Soledar, suggesting a level of discord between Wagner and the regular Russian army.
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Reports of looting of damaged stores in Turkey are starting to circulate after Monday's massive earthquake devastated large areas of the country's southeast.
Video footage shows angry shopkeepers chasing out a man suspected of stealing, in the southern city of Antakya. And the looters are not only after essentials, they are also taking pricey consumer items.
"There's a phone shop near mine where all the phones have been stolen”, says local shopkeeper Nizamettin Bilmez.
“Supermarkets are ok. If people come to take nappies, food and drinks, it's normal because no help has arrived for one to two days. People can come without problems. But some people are strange, they come to take a cooker or a coffee machine.”
According to state-run media, Turkish security teams arrested at least 98 looting suspects on Saturday, seizing over €10,000 as well as many consumer items.
Anger at poorly enforced building regulations
Turkish authorities have also issued 131 arrest warrants in connection with the construction of buildings that collapsed due to Monday's earthquakes.
Even though Turkey has, on paper, construction codes that meet current earthquake-engineering standards, they are too rarely enforced, explaining why thousands of buildings slumped onto their side or pancaked downward onto residents.
Detentions could help direct public anger toward builders and contractors, deflecting attention away from local and state officials who allowed the apparently sub-standard constructions to go ahead.
Already authorities have detained two contractors who are being held responsible for the destruction of several buildings in the city of Adiyaman, according to the private DHA news agency. The pair were reportedly on their way to Georgia.
Two more people were arrested in the province of Gaziantep suspected of having cut down columns to make extra room in a building that collapsed, the state-run Anadolu Agency said.
The government's response to the earthquake continues to cause headaches for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey, which is already burdened by an economic downturn and high inflation, faces parliamentary and presidential elections in May.
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