‘How can that be?’ – Man sticks to vigil after hunt for relatives in Turkiye quake ruins called off

A view of debris after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Osmaniye, Turkiye on February 06, 2023 [Ozan Efeoğlu/Anadolu Agency]

More than two weeks after huge earthquakes devastated Turkiye's Antakya, Mustafa Kazzaz was camped near the rubble of his family's building, refusing to move even after the search for the bodies of his father, brother and sister had ended. "They worked and worked. They dug out the whole building," he said, sitting alone in darkness on a plot of land across from the building his family lived in, Reuters reports. "They told me the work is done. There is no one else. They are saying, 'Your brother, sister, father are not here.' How can that be?" Rescue operations in the 10 provinces that were battered by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 6 February that killed more than 47,000 people in southern Turkey […] Source

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