Death toll continues to mount

A week into catastrophe, survivors — young and old — still being pulled out

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkiye — Rescuers pulled a 7-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after an earthquake devastated Turkiye and Syria and killed more than 33,000.

After arriving in southern Turkiye on Saturday, the United Nations relief chief Martin Griffiths said he expected the death toll to at least double.

Tens of thousands of rescue workers were scouring flattened neighborhoods despite freezing weather that has deepened the misery of millions now in desperate need of aid.