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 […]
At a funeral near Rehanli, masked women wailed and beat their chests as bodies were being unloaded from lorries – some in closed wooden coffins, others in open caskets, and still others wrapped in blankets. Some residents sought to reclaim whatever they could from the destruction. In Elbistan, the epicenter of an aftershock as powerful […]
Volunteers struggling to find at least one survivor in Turkey’s quake-hit city of Antakya said on Saturday that devastation and sanitation problems were adding to their difficult task. One resident, who was searching for a companion buried in a collapsed building, said he had seen looting in the first days before leaving the city after […]
Peeking out from under a massive slab of concrete and brick, Abdulalim Muyeni gestures weakly to his rescuers. It’s been more than two days since a massive earthquake leveled their home in Hatay, Turkey. Beside him lies his wife Esra. The rescue is too late for him. Reuters photographer Umit Bektas was on his second […]
In parts of the hospital still standing, health workers are doing their best to tend to the injured amid chaotic scenes. Due to a lack of ambulances, people came in private cars, and dozens lay on mats on the floor near the hospital entrance. An ambulance worker came shouting: “The baby’s coming, the baby, the […]
Nine people were missing after a fishing boat capsized off South Korea’s southwest coast on Sunday, officials said, prompting the country’s president to intensify search and rescue efforts. The Coast Guard said the fishing boat capsized just before midnight on Saturday, with three crew members being picked up by rescuers. Video released by the Coast […]
Few would have thought that a wet, helpless dog could survive for days stranded on the rocks of Chile’s second largest river, in the cold and windy coastal region of the South American country. Named Sirena, which means mermaid, the medium-sized black dog was rescued Thursday morning by her caretakers after being stranded at the […]
