Thousands are dead, and the toll keeps rising. Some 6,000 buildings collapsed as a result of the quake, according to Turkish officials
is the worst part. Every quarter of an hour the bulldozers and cranes digging through mounds of debris stop working, hoping to hear the screams of people trapped underneath. There are none. Instead there are the sobs and prayers of the relatives, friends and other onlookers gathered below. The rubble is all that remains of a 14-storey building in Adana, a city of 1.8m people in southern Turkey. A few hundred metres away the scene repeats itself.
Further south, Antakya, a city of 400,000 people that is the successor to ancient Antioch, resembles a city ravaged by years of war. In the city centre, practically every other building has been destroyed. Hunched over and covered with deep cracks, scores of other houses appear to be on the verge of collapse. Corpses pulled from the rubble, wrapped in carpets or blankets, line the main thoroughfare, alongside the wounded, waiting for ambulances.
The White Helmets, a civil-defence group that works in the province, were sadly well-prepared to respond: they have spent years digging people out of the ruins after Syrian and Russian airstrikes. But they are stretched thin, with perhaps 3,000 volunteers in a region of more than 4m people. Even when they do reach the wounded, a spokesman for the group says they struggle to provide treatment.
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