Unanswered cries as earthquake survivors wait for help in Turkey
Rescuers and residents are searching for survivors under the rubble of scores of collapsed buildings in AdanaAt dawn in the biting cold we made our way to a 10-storey building in Adana that had completely collapsed. I met two women wrapped in blankets, heading towards the rubble.
A companion urges us not to walk close to another building. It's cracked, he says: "They'll all have to come down." Her adult daughter, Senay, was on the second floor of the collapsed building. Nurten has been waiting here all day and all night, but no news has come."My daughter never liked the cold, oh God. She is under the earth. My heart is burning," she cries.
Further south, on the Turkish border with Syria, more news came in overnight from Hatay province, one of the worst hit regions. As he speaks a woman's voice cries out from the rubble. She cries again, and then bangs on metal trying to hold the man's attention. But there is nothing he alone can do. An entire home is collapsed and it will take machinery to lift the ruins.Nearby, another Hatay resident, Deniz, points to the collapsed building where his parents were stranded.
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