The scale of the disaster in Turkey and Syria keeps growing

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Thousands are dead, and the toll keeps rising. Some 6,000 buildings collapsed as a result of the quake, according to Turkish officials

is the worst part. Every quarter of an hour the bulldozers and cranes digging through mounds of debris stop working, hoping to hear the screams of people trapped underneath. There are none. Instead there are the sobs and prayers of the relatives, friends and other onlookers gathered below. The rubble is all that remains of a 14-storey building in Adana, a city of 1.8m people in southern Turkey. A few hundred metres away the scene repeats itself.

Further south, Antakya, a city of 400,000 people that is the successor to ancient Antioch, resembles a city ravaged by years of war. In the city centre, practically every other building has been destroyed. Hunched over and covered with deep cracks, scores of other houses appear to be on the verge of collapse. Corpses pulled from the rubble, wrapped in carpets or blankets, line the main thoroughfare, alongside the wounded, waiting for ambulances.

The White Helmets, a civil-defence group that works in the province, were sadly well-prepared to respond: they have spent years digging people out of the ruins after Syrian and Russian airstrikes. But they are stretched thin, with perhaps 3,000 volunteers in a region of more than 4m people. Even when they do reach the wounded, a spokesman for the group says they struggle to provide treatment.

 

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“U.S. European Command extends our sincerest condolences as a result of the earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria,”. The US has sent some $27 billion in military aid to Ukraine, and supplied tens of billions more in economic and humanitarian relief.

Don't stir shit We know your racist Do so.e staring shirt is Sweden and Europe first

Why dont u mention the sanctions?

please keep helping us, situation is over the expectations. We need many thousands of professional search and research team... thousands of people still under the rubbles and waiting for rescue team. Please please help Turkey.

Pray for them.

This is a truly terrible tragedy....

Is it the worse earthquake of the last century ? More ? Let's pray for survivors.

Please publish this without the membership barrier. This related to a natural disaster.

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Let's hope that expert to be very very wrong 😞

You must be on high,,

economist— reporter of the devil!

sad to hear that

What do you think about the earthquake in turkey, obviously it must have ruined all your plans because it didn't happen in istanbul

I am so sorry but this is reailty :(

“U.S. European Command extends our sincerest condolences and we express our deep sadness at the tragic loss of life as a result of the earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria,” Earthquake relief. How Much Aid Has the U.S. Sent Ukraine? 50 billion in assistance to Ukraine. Perspective.

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