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The video from a southern province of Turkey

Desperate screams of people trapped under the rubble in Hatay, volunteers: "No one is coming"

In the footage from a Turkish border province, the difficulties of volunteers to help and save people still stuck under the rubble: "They are alive but no one comes. We're finished." "There are no rescuers, no soldiers"

07/02/2023

A terrible video, shot in Turkey: people trapped under the rubble in Hatay scream for help, trapped under the rubble of a house. Volunteers say, "We've heard voices. Our children are also inside. What can we do? The building has already partially collapsed. We risked our lives but there is nothing else we can do."

As night fell in Hatay, locals anxiously scoured the site of a collapsed building, trying to hear signs of life and the voices of their loved ones trapped under piles of debris and rubble. More than 1,200 buildings were destroyed by the earthquake in the border province, with at least 520 dead in the area, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Kocha said.

There would be over 24 thousand rescuers engaged in research in the country, but the difficulty of reaching even the most remote provinces devastated by the earthquake, are adding adverse weather conditions, which continue in many regions: in the night, temperatures in the city of Gaziantep, hit by the earthquake, fell to -5 degrees.
Orhan Tatar, an official at the Disaster Management Agency, said 10 ships were helping with relief efforts, transporting the injured to hospitals, mainly from the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun. Some 55 helicopters have flown 154 sorties to transport emergency aid and 85 trucks are distributing food. Tatar, added that his agency has received "11,342 reports of collapsed buildings, but only 5,775 of these have been confirmed."