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Death toll soars amid rescue efforts
Urgent rescue mission underway in Turkey and Syria for survivors ‘These are not quick recoveries,’ Doctors Without Borders director says of Syria Getting aid to devastated parts of Syria damaged by Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake will be a major effort, with the situation complicated by large numbers of people displaced by war, the director of Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday. “This is going to be a major, major lift for the international aid community,” Avril Benoît said on MSNBC. At least 2,150 of the more than 7,000 people killed by the earthquakes were in Syria, which has suffered more than a decade of civil war. United Nations officials said that even…