Over 50,000 Dead Turkey-Syria Earthquake 6/2/23
 

https://news.sky.com/story/turkey-an...remor-12804459


Terrible overnight


[More than 660 killed as 7.8-magnitude
earthquake hits Turkey and Syria: Families are
crushed in their sleep and survivors cry
for help beneath rubble after 'record' quake
is felt as far afield as Egypt
The tremors in the region latest about
a minute - sending locals into the streets
The quake was felt as far away as Egypt
and Cyprus: the U.S. is promising aid]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-shatter.html

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02...5666699084.jpg
[Pictured: A young child is rescued from
underneath the rubble of a collapsed building
on Monday morning.
Rescue workers are pouring through
the rubble to find survivors]

We’ve gonna have to watch this on the news ever night for the next week then?

horrific, poor people

No, I would think
more just today



Sadly, many more have died,
due to being in more
older buildings.

SkyNewsHD Live

Nightime

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02...5666729072.jpg
[Rescue workers carry a person away from
a collapsed building on a stretcher]

What an insensitive thing to say.

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https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02...5673489042.jpg
[Turkish gendarmerie rescued a cat
under the rubble of a Galeria Mall
after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake
hit Diyarbakir, Turkey]

omg the death toll has doubled

It started at 4:17AM
so many asleep.


Some Expecting a death toll of over 10,000
in a few days


So many old buildings this time
sadly means many more deaths
has been reported by reporter on the scene


I am Glad they dug out that cat
that is in shock.
I posted that for Kaz.

So shocking , couldn't have happened at a worse time of day , poor people sleeping ~ going to be a vast death toll.

4,900 dead

It is a race to try to rescue
the many trapped under the building.

So many, now have no homes.

76 British Rescue Team and 4 search dogs
are on the way.

This is an awful tragedy,so many lost and there will e more,just awful.

Thousands of buildings collapsed, at around 4.15 in the morning, I dread to think how many people have died.

everyone working at the EBU, involved at the Eurovision Song Contest feels deepest sympathies for the turkish people right now, regarding the devastating earthquake

I posted that saved Cat photo for you.

It has a Shocked Stare
but at least saved.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02...5770232554.jpg
[Pictured: Father Mesut Hancer holds the
hand of his daughter, who was crushed to death
when her home collapsed in Turkey.
Monday's first massive 7.8-magnitude
earthquake struck at 4:17 am (0117 GMT),
while many were still asleep in their beds]

In Syria
a very young little girl
was pulled out,
she is now safe

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02...5763215977.jpg
[Pictured: A rainbow is seen in the sky
above the wreckage of a destroyed
building in Idlib, Syria]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02...5767034260.jpg
[Aid workers hand out bread to
people in Malatya, Turkey.
There have been on-the-ground reports
of residents looting supermarkets
after being left without food or shelter]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ars-5-000.html

CNN HD Live in Turkey
have said it is now over 6,000 who have died
in both nations

i can see this rising to 20,000

yeah, it's going to be very high, could even be 50k

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02...5767043553.jpg

[A Turkish soldier empties a bucket of rubble
as search and rescue efforts continue
in Kahramanmaras on Tuesday]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02...5757985603.jpg
[A woman is rescued from the wreckage
of a collapsed building in Sanliurfa
on Tuesday morning. AFAD has said
nearly 8,000 people have been rescued
from 4,758 buildings destroyed in the
Monday tremors]

Both nations
Over 7,000 Deaths

So many places need help.

heartbreaking picture

:sad:

Truly horrific and heartbreaking.
That newborn baby that they had to take from her dead mother is so sad .

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