Videos and photographs of the two earthquakes that have destroyed southern Turkey and northern Syria show rescuers digging with their hands, apartment blocks crushed to the grouds in seconds and the shaking apart of a castle that had stood for almost two millennia. The incident has killed at least 7,800 people.
One of the photographs from the Turkish region of Kahramanmaraş depicts the sufferings of a father who holds the hand of his dead teenage daughter as rescuers and civilians search through the flattened building where she died on Monday, reports The Guardian.
Mesut Hancer, the father of 15-year-old Irmak, holds her hand sitting hunched in the rubble as she lies on her bed beneath the slabs of concrete, smashed windows and broken bricks that were once apartments. Close to them, a man with a sledgehammer tries to smash his way through the ruins.
Pazarcık district of Kahramanmaraş, which lies in south-east Turkey, was the epicentre of the first earthquake. The initial, 7.8-magnitude earthquake, was followed, hours later, by a second quake that measured 7.7 on the Richter scale, reports The Guardian.
Pictures from the affected zone present to us the level of suffering of the people, following the natural disaster.
Rescuers pulled two children alive from the rubble, one of whom lay on a stretcher on the snowy ground elsewhere in Kahramanmaraş province and also quieted the people who had gathered, trying to help so they could hear survivors and find them.
