Rescuers flood into Hatay - but face a scene of utterly mind-blowing devastation
His first stop was Kahramanmaras in the southeast, where he admitted there had been mistakes on day one of the relief operation.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerCertainly, the people of Hatay have seen a marked influx of personnel and aid groups to the area in contrast to the previous two days when there appeared to be woefully little.We saw several lines of dead bodies lying on pavements; outside apartment blocks, and placed in the centre of fields.
One man fell in a heap on the black bag as he recognised the name. This mass mourning means there's no embarrassment in grief and it is rarely private. Within a split second, so many homes were transformed into concrete coffins - crushing the inhabitants and traumatising the survivors.followed the main earthquake, including a separate second quake which brought down even more buildings or left them seriously structurally unsound.
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