As lives claimed by the deadly quakes in Turkey and Syria passed 40,000, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) warned that thousands, if not millions, of children in the region could be threatened by hypothermia and respiratory infections.
UNICEF said 4.6 million children lived in the 10 provinces in Turkey that were struck by the earthquakes, and more than 2.5 million children were affected in Syria, calculating that thousands of children had been killed or injured.
