'I heard the sound of the building crashing down, floor by floor, like 'boom', 'boom',' says Zeynep Civi, who was trapped in a seven-storey apartment block with her sister Elife
Two sisters who spent more than four days trapped in the rubble of their collapsed apartment say the whole block slid in one direction as last week's enormous earthquake struck in southern Turkey.
While the survivors will face months or even years of discomfort as they begin to rebuild their lives, there are acts of courage they can draw upon.We first caught a glimpse of sisters Zeynep and Elife Civi as they were carried out of the remains of their seven-storey apartment block on a pair of battered-looking stretchers after it collapsed in the early hours of Monday 6 February."Yes, I was crying because I was so happy," she said."I was shivering because it was very cold.
"The building slid - I felt it slide like this," she said, indicating how the entire building started to move in one direction."The whole room slid."Zeynep made a critical decision when she realised the block was about to implode.
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