this historic city to prepare for the unimaginable. nadia bashir, cnn, istanbul. in southern africa, the official death toll has climbed as malawi faces the aftermath of cyclone freddy, this as a search nor the missing continues. michael holmes reports. reporter: more than 400 people are dead after cyclone freddy tore through malawi. entire villages swept away, many families still searching for loved ones. this woman says her husband and child were washed away in the flooding. she is the only one left in her family. it was raining for three days. on the third day, i saw what looked like fire coming from the mountain. it felt like the mountain was falling down. then a huge splash of water and mud came. those who could run ran and survived. those who could not were covered by mud. that s how i survived. reporter: another woman describes how her parents were
that was the terrifying scene at a supermarket in ecuador when a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck on saturday. at least 16 people are dead and more than 380 injured. the quake s epicenter was in ecuador s southern coast near the border with peru. dozens of homes, schools, and medical centers were damaged or destroyed. multiple roads were blocked by landslides, and a cnn affiliate reports that structural damage in a u.n. world heritage city. the death toll in the giant earthquake that rocked turkey and syria has now surpassed 55,000 people, and that s as parts as turkey are still feeling aftershocks more than a month later. while turkey s largest city istanbul is far from those tremors, it faces its own grave earthquake dangers. nadia bashir reports. reporter: the sound of concrete crumbling into rubble.
a powerful new aftershock has collapsed buildings in southern turkey, killing at least one person and injuring more than 100 others. the 5.6 magnitude quake hit on monday, three weeks to the day after the massive turkey and syria crake earlier this month. that crake and its aftershocks have killed more than 50,000 people, and left thousands more homeless. cnn s nadia bashir looks at what is being done to house quake victims. reporter: amid the rubble, there is quiet. buildings teetering on the edge of collapse, the air thick with dust, as excavators come through the destruction. there are no more survivors to be rescued, only bodies to recover. for the living, life has
warning that there they re approaching the end of the search and rescue window. more than 33,000 people have died sin the earthquake hit on monday. officials say more than 2,000 people sent to the hospital in istanbul have been released and more than a thousand are still being treated. cnn s nadia bashir is in turkey for us. so some of the international rescue teams have paused their work. explain why? reporter: well, that is right. we are learning that some rescue teams who traveled into turkey to help with that rescue efforts were forced to temporarily halt their operations including a team from germany, a team from austria and a team from israel. all citing security concerns. the team from austria have been very clear these were not security concerns directly targeting the team, and that they have now actually resumed their operations. the german team for their part have been ordered to return to their base in turkey for the time being until the situation