Photo Of Turkish Man Holding Hand Of Dead Daughter Underlines Earthquake Despair

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Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake's epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast, on Feb. 7, 2023.

TURKEY (VINnews) – Videos and photographs of the two earthquakes that have devastated southern Turkey and northern Syria, killing at least 5,000 people, show rescuers digging with their hands, apartment blocks concertinaing to the ground in seconds, and the shaking apart of a castle that had stood for almost two millennia.

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But few images depict the agony quite as plainly as a photograph from the Turkish region of Kahramanmaraş, in which Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake, as rescuers and civilians pick through the flattened building where she died on Monday.


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Tshuva
Tshuva
1 year ago

Sad. Very sad. But as sad as it is every bullet has an address. We need to take away from these events….. hug your kids. Be thankful for their life and health and thank HASHEM for them with all of your heart ….

Mallka
Mallka
1 year ago

Why hashem ? Innocent children .

anonymous
anonymous
1 year ago

Where’s Erdogan, did he even bother to visit? Some leader !!!

Alan
Alan
1 year ago

Where is biden ?