Despite the tragic stories left by the devastating earthquake in both Syria and Turkey, there are video clips that give new life to small bodies covered in rubble. Aleppo countryside after a devastating earthquake.
Rescuers were trying to remove a little girl whose body was among the rubble, and one of them turned to her and said: “Oh, Uncle Nur… talk to Papa… Papa is here.” This prompted the little girl to stir and look at her father, whose face was covered in mud.
Significantly, rescue teams are racing against the clock to find survivors of a major earthquake that has killed more than 8,000 people in Turkey and Syria to date.
The official unfinished death toll in Turkey reached 5,894 and injured 31,777 after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and neighboring Syria early Monday morning, destroying thousands of buildings and leaving thousands injured and homeless.
The World Health Organization said it expects the worst and fears “the results will be eight times higher than the first published figures.”
