Homeless and destitute people focused on helping after the earthquake in Turkey

Homeless and destitute people focused on helping after the earthquake in Turkey

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Footage showed him being carried away on a stretcher covered with a thermal blanket while an emergency worker held an intravenous drip.

Neslihan Kilik was rescued after about 10 hours.

“We had prepared his grave and we asked the rescuers to stop digging because we were afraid they would damage the bodies under the rubble. Moments later, his voice was heard from beneath the ruins of the building,” Killick K Saale told broadcaster CNN Turk.

Kilik’s husband and two children are still missing.

The quake killed at least 36,187 people in southern Turkey, while authorities in neighboring Syria have reported 5,800 dead – a figure that has changed little in the days since.

Turkey on Thursday appealed for more than $1 billion in funding for relief operations, two days after the United Nations launched an appeal for $400 million for the Syrian people.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, speaking in his first televised remarks since Thursday’s earthquake, said the response to the disaster required more resources than the government had available.

Neither Turkey nor Syria has said how many people are still missing.

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, who visited Turkey last week, said people had experienced “unspeakable heartache”: “We must stand by them in their worst hour and ensure that May they get the support they need.”

For families still waiting to take relatives back, anger is mounting over what they see as corrupt building practices and deeply flawed urban development that has resulted in thousands of homes and businesses being shattered.

“I have two children. No one else. They are both under this rubble,” said Seville Karabduloglu, as excavators tore apart the remains of a high-end block of flats in the southern Turkish city of Antakya where his two daughters lived. .

About 650 people are believed to have died in the collapse of the Renaissance residence.

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