The Director of External Relations of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Agency indicated that “there are many stranded people still under the rubble,” stressing that “the magnitude of the earthquake disaster is very large, beyond the capacity of any party.” “The rescue operations will not stop, and there is still hope for more rescues,” he said.
He pointed out that “we need tents and mobile homes to shelter the survivors, and we also need food and blankets to meet their needs.”
It is noteworthy that searches for survivors under the rubble of buildings destroyed by the violent earthquake in Syria and Turkey continue for the seventh day in a row.
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Kahramanmaraş province in Turkey, at dawn on Monday, destroying a number of cities and leaving thousands dead and injured. The aftershocks of the earthquake also reached the cities of northern Syria and Iraq, and the earthquake was felt by the residents of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
The strongest reverberations of the earthquake were in the cities of northern Syria, where it caused thousands of deaths and injuries, and the destruction of thousands of buildings.
