More than 7 million children are affected by the devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6, UNICEF said on Tuesday, fearing that several thousand of them may have been killed.
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In Turkey, the total number of children living in the ten provinces affected by the two earthquakes was 4.6 million children.
In Syria, 2.5 million children are affected
,” James Elder, a spokesman for the organization, told a regular press briefing in Geneva.