Before the earthquake, Abdullah Senil was stressed of steel. But these days, just to be inside a house It makes him nervous – and it just takes it sound of A plane flies over to put him down on edge.
“I was not afraid in the pastbut now one noise enough to scare me out57-year-old former The weightlifter told AFP (AFP).
“Everything reminds me of Quake – even sound of He said “airplane”.
Last month’s devastating earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 razed entire cities to the ground, killing more from 50,000 people across southeastern Turkey and parts of Northern Syria.
in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey city Near the epicenter, the survivors remain Shock haunts him one Month on.
It’s been a month now though for I feel like Yesterday, Adam Siren said as he watched heavy machines Remove piles of rubble in complex of The tall towers where hundreds lost their lives.
“We couldn’t get it over Shock. The earthquake caught me on eleventh floor of highrise building. I can still hear the screams of people crying for help on all floor. “This pain will never go away,” said Cyrine, whose wife was five months pregnant.
Efforts to clear rubble everywhere are now dominating the city city of 1.1 million people.
Workers who arrived from everyone over Spray Turkish water on Debris and trucks laden with rubble are strewn along the road waiting to be dumped in a landfill outside the city.
clouds of soil
columns of Dust comes out of the cleaner.up Covering the horizon, it is carried away by the wind and produces gray clouds from kilometers away.
About 200 to 250 tons of debris removed Here daily, we water so that it does not disturb environment And don’t generate dust,” said Erin Janes, of Forestry Directorate in Eastern Sivas Province.
Customers sometimes come across valuables while working to clear rubble.
Levent Topal, from the Waterworks Authority in Black Sea region, he told him team Spotted a safe deposit box in rubble full of Dollars, Euros, Gold and Documents. “We never touch them, we hand them over to the police who Find the owner.
A 54year old man took a big risk And climbed to the seventh floor of for him building to retrieve items – despite of danger And more More than 11,000 aftershocks followed the earthquake.
“I know Carrying a door and curtain rods on the roof, Veli Akguz confessed of for him car.
full of him family of 13 people and who used to live in Five different apartments, you will now merge into the village house.
2 million homeless
Officials say nearly 2 million people left Displaced from the earthquake, now inhabited in Tents and container homes, guest houses or dormitories in and beyond region.
in one part of Kahramanmaraş offers a panorama view of the cityDozens of tents were housed in the garden of Local authority two-story offices. Locals cover the ground of tents with They cut the carpets from a historic mosque whose minaret had fallen due to the earthquake.
Country death Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Saturday that the death toll from the earthquake had risen to 45,968. Soylu said death The death toll also includes 4,267 Syrians.
Turkish officials said 214,000 buildings collapsed in the aftermath of the quake, many of them of they in Hatay and Kahramanmaraş. difference of Workers are still struggling to clear rubble in affected counties.
