Silent phones, freezing rain and anguish in Turkey quake

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 08, 2023 12:15 am

SANLIURFA, Turkey: A stream of cars crawled north out of the shattered city of Sanliurfa, taking traumatized residents a little further from the scene of Turkey's most powerful earthquake in decades.

On the opposite side of the road, a distraught family walked in the freezing rain, their belongings piled into a stroller, looking for shelter to spend the night.

Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors in the rubble of a collasped building, in Sanliurfa, Turkey, on February 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's south-east. REMI BANET / AFP

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