Six survivors were rescued from the rubble in Turkey on Tuesday, eight days after a devastating earthquake
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“People are suffering a lot. We applied to receive tent, aid or something but until now we didn’t receive anything,” said Hassan Saimoua, a refugee staying with his family in a playground in Turkey’s southeastern city of Gaziantep.Article content Meanwile, survivors joined a mass exodus from earthquake-hit zones, leaving their homes unsure if they can ever come back.Article content“It’s very hard … We will start from zero, without belongings, without a job,” said 22-year-old Hamza Bekry, a Syrian originally from Idlib who has lived in Hatay, in southern Turkey, for 12 years.
Drone footage in Kahramanmaras showed empty buildings with their walls ripped open by the quake, which caused the collapse of dozens of structures and forced hundreds of families to live in tents erected in a stadium in freezing temperatures.Article content Russia also said it was wrapping up its search and rescue work in Turkey and Syria and preparing to withdraw from the disaster zone.
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