Overnight update

Hello MEE readers. Temperatures have dropped to subzero overnight in Turkey and Syria as search and rescue workers continue efforts to locate people trapped under the rubble.

More international aid is trickling in, as a Chinese rescue team has arrived on Wednesday morning. The US has said its rescue teams will also arrive early on Wednesday.

The death toll has neared 8,000 people in both countries, as the number of injured has reached the tens of thousands.

In Syria's rebel-held northwest, rescue and aid efforts are being obstructed by road damage to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey, the sole lifeline for millions of people in Syria's northwest who live in areas out of Syrian government control.

The United Nations announced it was releasing $25m from its emergency response fund to kickstart the disaster relief. Turkey's disaster management agency, Afad, said on Tuesday that more than 3,000 foreign aid workers were sent to assist in the disaster zone.

Several harrowing viral videos circulated on social media have shown survivors being rescued from the disaster.

One video showed a newborn baby that was pulled out alive from the rubble of a home in northern Syria, after she was found still tied by her umbilical cord to her mother.

The mother did not survive.

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