Entrance to Maraş, Hatay and Adıyaman been stopped
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- 13:43 07/2/2023
Vice President Fuat Oktay announced that vehicle entry to Mereş, Hatay and Semsûr has been stopped for 48 hours.
Vice President Fuat Oktay announced that vehicle entry to Mereş, Hatay and Semsûr has been stopped for 48 hours.
Cries for help are rising from under the rubble in Adıyaman, one of the cities most damaged by the earthquake. In the city, where no aid has yet arrived, the people are trying to save their relatives with their own means.
A citizen who participated in HaberTürk's live broadcast from the wreckage area condemned AKP President Erdoğan's claim that "AFAD has arrived" and said: "They are lying, they took a picture and left".
In many cities of Çukurova, where destruction was experienced after the earthquake, the people spent the night on the streets. In cities where aid and search and rescue teams did not go, citizens tried to save the people under the rubble by their own means.
While the loss of life is increasing day by day in two major earthquakes in Mereş, thousands of people are still waiting to be rescued under the rubble. The people who spent the night on the street in the earthquake area reported by our reporters are against the government.
The walls of Amed, which is on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List, collapsed due to the earthquake.
The number of people who lost their lives in two earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6 that occurred in Mereş yesterday rose to 3 thousand 381.
The biggest wish of the people of Malatya is to wake up the next morning by warming the hands of the state that the state cannot hold.
Antep Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Fatma Şahin said that half of İslahiye, which has a population of 60 thousand, was destroyed in a statement on the balance sheet of the earthquake.
Vice President Fuat Oktay said that the number of people who lost their lives in the earthquake increased to 2 thousand 379.
Rescue efforts were not initiated in Adıyaman, which was severely affected by the earthquake. In the city, where hundreds of people are under the rubble, the people are carrying out search and rescue efforts by their own means.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that they are concerned about the regions that could not be heard after the earthquakes.
AFAD announced that 1,121 people lost their lives in the earthquake in Maraş.
The dead bodies of two adults were found in Işık Apartment, one of the 7 buildings destroyed in Diyarbakır due to the earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.5, the epicenter of which is in the Pazarcık district of Maraş, and 2 injured people were rescued. After the searches in the Galeria Business Center were interrupted, the people marched towards the governor's office.
HDP's Ali Kenanoğlu announced that AFAD could not reach the earthquake zone except by helicopter.