STORY: It’s a moment of hope in the disaster area. A day after the severe earthquakes in the Turkish-Syrian border region, helpers rescued a boy from a collapsed house in the northern Syrian city of Djindires. A little girl was also found alive under the rubble. “Look, your father is here,” a helper tries to calm the child. Finally, the Syrian forces manage to free the only slightly injured girl. The conditions on site are not only dangerous because of numerous aftershocks, bad weather and sometimes freezing cold also make the situation more difficult. In the Turkish city of Malatya, people searched for signs of life of their relatives in the snow-covered rubble on Tuesday. They desperately wait for help. “I have two nephews in the rubble behind me. The building collapsed around 2am yesterday and there may be hundreds more homes like this. Thousands of people are currently under the rubble. They are not allowing us to help them with our means save, but they don’t send anyone to help either.” One day after the severe tremors, here are pictures from the Turkish city of Hatay, the number of dead has risen to over 5,000. Around 3,500 of them were reported from Turkey alone. More than 1,600 fatalities were counted in the neighboring civil war country Syria. Meanwhile, more and more international aid is arriving. A team from the German search and rescue service ISAR landed in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep on Tuesday morning. It’s another two and a half hours’ drive to their place of action in Kirikhan. Luckily, the roads are clear, the rescuers tell a reporter from the Reuters news agency who accompanies the team. “The region in which we are about to find ourselves is really, very much neglected at the moment and. As far as the first reports are concerned, it’s really just rubble everywhere. According to the first reports, the route there is passable. So we’re not worried .” “The place has come up a lot in the past, especially on social media, more recently because it seems like there’s going to be a large number of casualties there. We’re likely to be the first international team to get there, and then with begin our rescue efforts immediately.” More than 13,700 search and rescue workers have already been deployed and more than 41,000 tents, 100,000 beds and 300,000 blankets have been sent to the region, according to Turkey’s Afad disaster agency. Dozens of countries have pledged their help.