“Everything that did not collapse has now collapsed”: many victims after the new earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

According to the Turkish Disaster Relief Agency, he reported, the epicenter of the earthquake was in Defne, Hatay Province, and the first quake occurred at a depth of ten kilometers at 8:04 pm local time, 6:04 pm with us. According to a TV channel CNN left Steam went out in the Turkish province of Hatay. Several witnesses reported that buildings in Antakya, the capital of Hatay, were damaged in the earthquake. Possibly due to electrical problems, fires broke out in several places.

Witnessing “the ground under our feet” CNN left– Journalist Boss Deferin. “We were in the tent camp and everything was shaking incredibly. People were still making food on their fires. The kids were very scared. It wasn’t an aftershock.”

“number of wounded”

AFP journalists in Antakya and Adana, 200 kilometers north of Defne, said they could feel the quake “very clearly”. According to journalist Adam Mitan, the earthquakes that occurred on Monday evening again caused great damage. “Everything that did not collapse has collapsed now,” he says.

is located in Hatay. The entire city where he is at the moment is completely engulfed in smoke due to the new earthquakes. At least three people were killed and 213 people were hospitalized in Hatay province, according to Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. The minister warns the residents to go home immediately. He also spoke of at least 26 aftershocks on Monday night.

Walls and balconies collapsed

In rebel-held northwest Syria, people jumped from rooftops and terraces to save themselves. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said falling bricks and debris also hit people in Salqin, Hareem, Idlib, Khirbet al-Yuz and rural areas near Aleppo. Civilians were also injured by falling debris in the city of Hama, central Syria.

“Many people left their homes and took to the streets, fearing more earthquakes, including in the capital, Damascus,” a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Twitter.

“I thought the ground was opening up under my feet,” said Mona Al-Omar, who lives in the affected area. Reuters. Another witness tells how he and his relatives pulled each other together when the earthquake occurred. “We didn’t know what else to do. We saw the walls crumble. It was as if the earth was opening up below us and sucking us in.”

Atta Kosar was in his home for the first time since the strongest earthquake two weeks ago. “I’ve been showing you what to do if another earthquake happens,” he says. “It fell to the ground. And when I lay there, there was another one. We heard other buildings collapsing, and our house was also damaged more.”

Saturday earthquake

On Saturday evening, an earthquake also occurred in southeastern Turkey, then it had a magnitude of 5.3. As far as is known, there were no other casualties. According to Afad, more than 6,000 aftershocks have been recorded since the severe earthquakes two weeks ago.

On February 6, the Turkish-Syrian border region was hit by a series of strong earthquakes, with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale. More than 47,000 people were killed, more than 41,000 of them in Turkey alone. This balance continues to increase every day. Hatay province was already one of the hardest hit provinces at that time. Turkish authorities suspended all rescue operations on Sunday, except for Hatay and Kahramanmaraş.