The bodies of dozens of citizens are wrapped in blankets, tarpaulins and garbage bags and are waiting for someone familiar to identify them
The death toll from the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria is increasing as the hours pass. So far the death toll has exceeded 1,200 with residents in the quake-hit areas of Turkey going to stadiums and parking lots to identify their own people who could not make it and were pulled dead by rescue crews from the rubble.
#kahramanmaraş ,😔 pic.twitter.com/ueNLaOlNxK
— Durdu DOĞAN (@bytarihci) February 8, 2023
The bodies of dozens of citizens are wrapped in blankets, tarpaulins and garbage bags and are waiting for someone familiar to identify them. More than 100 bodies have been piled up in the parking lot of the Hatay hospital near the city of Antakya (Antioch) in southern Turkey.
Bodybags pile up in Turkey with at least 11k dead after mega-quake ‘that MOVED country 10ft’… as Sun readers raise £250k – https://t.co/HMdq32CFd3 pic.twitter.com/OxSaygOjz4
— THELAPDROP (@thelapdrop) February 8, 2023
At the same time, in the city of Kahramanmaras, near the epicenter of the earthquake, another 100 bodies were placed in a field, where residents went for identification.
Some of the dead had tags with their personal information on them. Some others don’t. A woman who could not find her sister cried out: “God, look at us, we will be grateful if we find the bodies of our own people.”
KahramanmaraÅŸ depremlinde can loss count 8 bin 574’e yuklisdi https://t.co/6utYlloKwz #gazettesozcu @gazetesozcu through pic.twitter.com/uDahvYSXEA
—St. Lightning GENÇ NORVEÇLİLER (@VizyonsuzAli) February 8, 2023
Meanwhile, dozens of green metal coffins in the city of Gaziantep line up under a shelter in the city’s central cemetery for an imam to bless the victims before their burial.
65 corpses in a hospital north of #Aleppo are waiting for their relatives to identify them… Just as this young man recognized at this moment a corpse he was looking for, hoping that he would not meet her here! #Syria #Turkey #earthquake #Gaziantep #nurdağı #зелзал #تركيا pic.twitter.com/57sJX3L2hg
— Øسن جنيد | Hasan Jneed (@Hasan_Jneed) February 6, 2023
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