He time is running out for the survivors who remain under the rubble after the earthquake that has hit Syria and Turkey. There are fewer and fewer chances of finding the disappeared alive, while the public denounces the Difficulty getting helpwith communications cut off and, in the case of Syria, in a country torn by war.
In places like hataione of the most affected areas, it is the civilians themselves who remove their loved ones from the rubble, without any protection, helped by a simple rug or, with luck, by a member of the Police.
His despair is Çigdem Özcan, a Hatay resident woman whose daughter and son-in-law, who were expecting a baby, remain trapped under what’s left of their building, unknown alive or not. “My daughter and son-in-law are under the rubble. They had just got married. My daughter is one month pregnant. We have no support and we are still waiting“explains the woman through tears.
“Their rooms were just on the other side, but the rescuers cannot get close enough because there is a building on the other side,” says the woman, who denounces the helplessness she feels: “We are waiting here, helplessly. We need help“, the Mint.
Source: Lasexta
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