The man couldn’t say a word, but his tears expressed his loss.
Hatay, Turkey:
As hopes for survivors in Turkey dimmed on Saturday, six days after a devastating earthquake claimed the lives of more than 25,000 people, a particularly heartbreaking scene set the mood.
His words may be hard to understand for many, but the pain is just so obvious. As 17 bodies were pulled one by one from a ravaged building in Turkey’s Hatay, he stood inconsolably in front of the wreckage.
Rescuers said the man pictured in the video had lost all seven members of his family. With tears rolling down his face, he brought up a WhatsApp profile picture of one of the family members who died in the disaster.
The tragedy, described as the worst the region has faced in more than a century, left a trail of untold pain and destruction.
Relief efforts are ongoing as tens of thousands of workers from different countries race to affected areas, including those covered by India’s “Operation Dost”.
In Kahramanmaras, Turkey, a father sits alone on a pile of bricks in the cold, holding his 15-year-old daughter’s hand, the only part of her body visible, crushed under the weight of a block of concrete. falling cardboard.
The magnitude 7.8 quake and several aftershocks devastated residential areas in both Turkey and Syria, leaving millions in desperate need of aid.
Teams from the Indian Army and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed to the affected areas.
In one remarkable rescue operation, NDRF personnel were able to pull an 8-year-old girl out of a collapsed structure, working alongside Turkish military personnel.
The unit had also rescued a 6-year-old girl from the same area just a day earlier.
