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Hopes faded Thursday of finding more survivors after the earthquake that killed nearly 20,000 people in Turkey and Syria, as the first UN aid reached Syrian rebel-held zones.
Bitter cold has hampered the four-day search of thousands of flattened buildings and threatened the lives of many quake victims who are without shelter and drinking water.
Criticism against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who visited more areas affected by the quake on Thursday, have continued.
But in a potentially life-saving development, an aid convoy reached rebel-held northwestern Syria on Thursday, the first since Monday's disaster.
The aid passage through the crossing is the only way UN assistance can reach civilians without going through areas controlled by Syrian regime forces.