Bojcrut said, “You recover a body from tons of rubble. Families are waiting with hope…they want a burial ceremony. They want a grave.” According to Islamic tradition, the dead should be buried as soon as possible. In one city cemetery, thousands of new graves far outnumbered the number before the quake, underscoring the scale of […]
three generations stuck In the city of Kahramanmaras, rescuers said they had contact with a grandmother, mother and child trapped in a room in the remains of a three-story building. Rescue workers were digging a second tunnel to reach them, after the first route was blocked, and a human chain was formed to carry out […]
Screams could be heard from people trapped under the rubble and relatives crying for loved ones on Tuesday night as the death toll in Turkey and neighboring northwestern Syria rose to more than 3,700. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck both countries early Monday, collapsing entire apartment blocks, ravaging hospitals, and leaving thousands injured or homeless. Bitterly […]
