She said her father had been living in a fourth-floor apartment when the earthquake struck
A British-Syrian community leader is organising donations for Syrians after being “worried sick” when she heard her 87-year-old father had to sleep in his car after the earthquake hit. Lena Baurak, 57, from Nottingham, a board member at Scan UK , said her father had been living in a fourth-floor apartment in Latakia, Syria, when the earthquake struck.
“They live on the fourth floor and they were petrified that they were not going to make it in time, and they will be trapped under the rubble if, God forbid, their building had collapsed because of my dad’s slow movement as he is 87-years-old. But thankfully, somehow, they managed to escape their building and drove their car to an area in Latakia where they felt safer because there were less high-rises around.“They spent the rest of the night in their car there.
“I was worried about my family over there because we’ve heard that buildings were collapsing and families were trapped under the rubble and we weren’t sure what was going on,” she said. “Day by day we’re just finding out more and more about this catastrophe which, you know, is unimaginable.” “And we are worried because we have no way to bring them over or get a visa, like an exemption for a visa to stay with us for a period of time until things started to get better; especially if homes are damaged or they’re not sure if it is safe enough to go back. Syrian or Turkish people as a community here are traumatised, we have a feeling of survival.
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