Hatay, Turkey:

As hope for survivors in Turkey pale on Saturday, six days after a devastating earthquake that has claimed the lives of over 25,000 individuals, a very heart-wrenching sight chalked out the temper.

His phrases could also be unintelligible for a lot of however the grief solely too stark. As 17 our bodies had been pulled out one after the other from a devastated constructing in Turkey’s Hatay, he stood inconsolable earlier than the wreckage.

Rescuers stated the person captured on video had misplaced all seven relations. With tears streaming down his face, he confirmed a WhatsApp profile image of one of many relations who died within the catastrophe.

The tragedy, described because the worst the area has confronted in over a century, has left a path of unspeakable ache and destruction in its wake.

Reduction efforts are ongoing as tens of 1000’s of staff from numerous nations race to the affected areas together with these a part of India’s “Operation Dost”.

In Kahramanmaras, Turkey, a father sat alone on a pile of bricks within the chilly, holding the hand of his 15-year-old daughter, the one seen a part of her physique, which was crushed beneath the load of the fallen concrete.

The earthquake, with a magnitude of seven.8 and accompanied by a number of aftershocks, decimated neighbourhoods in each Turkey and Syria, leaving hundreds of thousands in determined want of help.

Groups from the Indian Military and the Nationwide Catastrophe Response Power (NDRF) have been deployed to the affected areas.

In a single exceptional rescue operation, NDRF personnel had been capable of extract an 8-year-old lady from a collapsed construction, working alongside Turkish military personnel.

The identical unit additionally rescued a 6-year-old lady from the identical space simply the day earlier than.