The death toll from a catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria surpassed 41,000 on Friday.
Officials and medics said 38,044 people had died in Turkey and 3,688 in Syria from the February 6 tremor, bringing the confirmed total to 41,732.
Turkish rescuers on Thursday pulled a 17-year-old girl and a woman in her 20s from the rubble, nearly 11 full days after the 7.8-magnitude jolt struck.
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But Turkey has suspended rescue operations in some regions, and the government in war-torn Syria has done the same in areas under its control.
The Turkish toll makes it the country’s deadliest natural disaster in its post-Ottoman history.
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