In Kahramanmaraş and Pazarcık, rescuers comb the rubble, often finding only body parts
escue workers in Kahramanmaraş said they could smell corpses as they dug through piles of debris in the centre of a town now so devastated by the earthquake and its aftershocks that many buildings have been reduced entirely to rubble.
“After I managed to dig myself out from the rubble when my house collapsed, I came here to try to find them,” he said. “I can only hope, but it seems too late. The emergency teams arrived too late, and only today did they bring these diggers. I hope they can do something.”The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, visited Kahramanmaraş on Wednesday to meet survivors now living in tents in the town’s stadium.
“I arrived early this morning. I’ve been pulling people out of the rubble. Some of their bodies were frozen from the cold,” said Ufuk Akgün, a rescue worker. “I don’t believe there’s hope of finding people alive.” Witnesses said that until Monday evening, less than a day after the first tremors struck, they could hear voices and cries for help from people trapped under the ruined buildings. Then, on Tuesday morning, silence had fallen over the ruins of Pazarcik.
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