Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake

By SARAH EL DEEB and SUZAN FRASER
Associated Press

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s interior minister has updated the country’s death toll from the Feb. 6 earthquake that also devastated parts of Syria to 39,672. That brings the total number of reported deaths in both Turkey and Syria to 43,360. The powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake was the deadliest disaster in Turkey’s modern history. Even as the window for finding people alive continued to shrink, rescuers on Friday removed a 45-year-old man from a collapsed building in Turkey’s Hatay province, He spent 278 hours beneath the rubble, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. Turkey’s vice president says search teams are working at fewer than 200 sites, with Hatay accounting for the largest number.