Meanwhile, the sixth plane carrying rescue troops, necessities, and medical equipment for earthquake relief efforts arrived in Turkey as part of India's 'Operation Dosth' on Thursday.
Digital Desk: On the fourth day of search operations, more bodies were discovered in the wreckage, raising the dead toll to nearly 15,000 people. Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been hurt. President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that his government's first response to a deadly earthquake in southern Turkey had flaws, amid outrage from those left homeless and angered by the tardy arrival of rescue crews.
According to Turkish officials, 13.5 million people were affected in a 450-kilometer radius stretching from Adana in the west to Diyarbakir in the east. People were killed as far south as Hama, 250 kilometres from the epicentre, in Syria. Some of those who died in Turkey were refugees fleeing Syria's civil war.
Meanwhile, the sixth plane carrying rescue troops, necessities, and medical equipment for earthquake relief efforts arrived in Turkey as part of India's 'Operation Dosth' on Thursday. The sixth flight sent more rescue teams, dog squads, and life-saving medicines to the earthquake-ravaged country
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