Turkey-Syria Earthquake, Death Toll To Top 50,000, UN Warns

The death toll from the calamitous earthquake in Turkey and Syria will “double or more” from its current level, which is now close to thirty thousand, the United Nations emergency relief coordinator has warned. “I think it is difficult to estimate precisely as we need to get under the rubble, but I’m sure it will double or more,” Martin Griffiths said. “It’s deeply shocking… the idea that these mountains of rubble still hold people, some of them still alive,” he said, adding that “we haven’t really begun to count the number of dead.” Griffiths arrived on Saturday in Turkey’s southern…