[Trigger warning: Death] ‘THERE IS CHAOS, RUBBLE, AND BODIES EVERYWHERE’ The death toll kept growing – exceeding 25,250 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria. READ:
In the Turkish city of Antakya, several residents and rescue workers said they had seen looting.
“There is chaos, rubble, and bodies everywhere,” he said. His group had worked overnight trying to reach a university teacher calling to them from the rubble. But by morning she had stopped responding to them, he said.At one building in Kahramanmaras, rescue workers burrowed between concrete slabs to reach a five-year-old girl, lifting her on a stretcher, wrapped in foil, and chanting “God is great.
About 80,000 people were being treated in hospital, while 1.05 million left homeless by the quakes were in temporary shelters, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told reporters overnight. A young woman squatted next to one, holding her face. By another, a woman broke down in sobs as a boy tried to comfort her. Beyond them, rows of freshly dug graves were laid out, waiting to be filled as the city prepared to bury its dead.“If people don’t die here under the rubble, they’ll die from injuries, if not they will die from infection. There is no toilet here. It is a big problem,” said Gizem, a rescue worker from the southeastern province of Sanliurfa.
People in the quake zone and opposition politicians have accused the government of a slow and inadequate relief early on and critics have said the army, which played a main role after a 1999 earthquake, was not involved fast enough. With a death toll so far of 21,848 inside Turkey, it is the country’s deadliest earthquake since 1939. More than 3,500 have died in Syria, where death tolls have not been updated since Friday.In Syria, people waiting for news of family members stood solemnly by mounds of crushed concrete and twisted metal.
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