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.
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.
The grief is incomprehensible. Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter who has been crushed to death by rubble from the earthquake in Turkey. pic.twitter.com/tq4zMeX1eh
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) February 7, 2023