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Live Blog Update| Turkey-Syria earthquake

In pictures: Volunteers work around the clock to provide assistance

British soldiers serving with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) load a truck with 105 boxes of food, clothing, water and blankets donated by Greek Cypriots in the south of the ethnically divided island nation to be transferred to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north from where it will be taken to Turkey for distribution to earthquake victims at the vacant Ledra Palace hotel inside a U.N. controlled buffer zone in the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, 15 February 2023.
Soldiers serving with the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus load a truck with 105 boxes of food, clothing, water and blankets donated by Greek Cypriots on 15 February 2023 (AP)

A volunteer walks through a corridor formed by sorted donations for earthquake victims, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, at the Turkish Embassy in Washington.
A volunteer walks through a corridor formed by sorted donations for earthquake victims, Friday, on 10 February 2023 at the Turkish Embassy in Washington (AP)

Volunteers set up tents for Families who lost their homes in a devastating earthquake to provide them shelter and food near destroyed buildings in the town of Harem, Idlib province, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023
Volunteers set up tents for Families who lost their homes in a devastating earthquake to provide them shelter and food in the town of Harem, Idlib province, Syria, on 11 February 2023 (AP)

Patients affected by the earthquake are seen by medical personnel in a makeshift hospital set up at Turkish Bayraktar warship anchored in a port near Iskenderun city, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023.
Patients affected by the earthquake are seen by medical personnel in a makeshift hospital set up near Iskenderun city, southern Turkey on 14 February 2023 (AP)