BJ Richardson, an American teacher living near epicentre, says everyone is just trying to survive amid devastation left by twin quakes
BJ Richardson, 45, a US citizen who works as a teacher in Gaziantep, near the epicentre of the earthquake inBJ Richardson, 45, a teacher in Gaziantep, at his school’s gym, which has been converted into a shelter.We are all in shock. I walked through a small area of Gaziantep on Tuesday morning. Damage is everywhere – cracked buildings, plaster, broken glass, some buildings have fallen. Each of these buildings represents hundreds of people who are now homeless.
Rescuers search for people trapped beneath the rubble in Gaziantep, after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 6 February.I stood in my door frame. The first tremor lasted for more than a minute. It felt like an eternity and the whole building was rocking and shaking. At around 8am, I managed to get a taxi, the driver wasn’t charging a fare, and in the backseat were his mother and wife, they were just driving around with him all day.
My friend sent me pictures of his [badly damaged] apartment in İskenderun [120kms from Gaziantep], in a 15-storey building. He and his family are in a shelter, focused on surviving the day, the future is too unbearable to deal with yet.
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