Thousands of North Texans with ties to the region have been glued to the news coming out of Turkey and Syria as the death toll and destruction from the massive earthquakes continue to increase.
There have been numerous videos on social media that show buildings falling to the ground due to the shock waves of the earthquake.
“You see them collapsing in front of your eyes while people are walking and trying to get away from it, it's devastating and there's over 2,500 people have perished and I'm afraid that number is going to go up unfortunately," said Sipahi.“I didn’t sleep most of the night, I was thinking about it, kept looking at my phone," said Ayman Alkurdi, who lives in Irving and has a 73-year-old sister in Syria.
“I was very scared when I tried to call and she didn’t answer," said Alkurdi who would later get a hold of her."She was very scared, her voice as shaky. She said the bed kept shaking, for a long time.""All of them in Damascus are fine, but the northern side, there’s a lot of problems over there," said Alkurdi.
That is closer to the border of Turkey, where there are a lot of refugees who were displaced from the war. "We have multiple families here from Syria from Turkey and I immediately knew just by the magnitude of the earthquake and seeing the initial images of the buildings collapsing that the death toll is going to be significant and the restoration effort is going to be even more significant," said Imam Dr. Omar Suleiman, founder and president of the
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