The death toll from Monday’s devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose to over 5,000 on Tuesday as rescuers worked desperately to rescue victims trapped beneath the wreckage, despite the growing despair and magnitude of the disaster.
Early Monday morning’s earthquake, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, was the deadliest in Turkey since 1999. It caused the collapse of hundreds of buildings, including several apartment blocks, damaged hospitals and left thousands of people in Turkey and Syria homeless or homeless. injured.
Reuters journalists observed rescue efforts on one of dozens of rubble in the streets of Antakya, a Turkish city near the Syrian border. There was no heat or power and the raindrops seemed to fall from the sky.
Authorities in Turkey estimate that 13.5 million people were affected in a 450-kilometer stretch from Adana to Diyarbakir and a 300-kilometer stretch from Malatya to Hatay. Deaths have been reported as far south as Hama, Syria (about 100 km from the epicenter).
Vice President Fuat Oktay reported that In Turkey, 3,419 people had died and that extreme weather made it difficult to provide relief to the affected areas. Nearly 1,600 people have died in Syria, where the government and rescue service in the insurgent-held northwest report, and where the earthquake exacerbated infrastructure damage from 11 years of war.
The nighttime search was complicated by the freezing temperatures and snowfall. A woman’s voice could be heard begging for rescue under a pile of rubble in southern Turkey’s Hatay province. Nearby, the body of a small child lay motionless. A resident who identified himself as Deniz was seen sobbing in the rain.
They make noises, he said, but no one showed up. We are heartbroken beyond words. My God… They’re screaming for help. However, their cries “Save us” are meaningless. We need to figure out how to save them. I haven’t seen anyone since the morning. Many other families slept in their cars, parked one behind the other in the middle of the street.
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Ayla, standing next to the ruins of an eight-story building, explained that she had traveled to Hatay from Gaziantep on Monday to look for her mother. Firefighters from the Istanbul Fire Department were working in the rubble, which consisted of concrete and glass.
There are currently no known living individuals. A stray dog showed up and kept barking in the same spot; I thought it might be looking for my mom. “No, that was someone else,” she insisted. To help the rescuers, I activated the car’s lights. There are only two bodies and no survivors who removed them.
Instead of declaring a state of emergency, which would lead to widespread military mobilization, Ankara issued a “level 4 alert” asking for international assistance.
The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) reported that 5,775 buildings were damaged or destroyed and 20,426 people were injured as a result of the earthquake and its 285 aftershocks.
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