Each passing hour brought more ravaging news from Turkey and Syria where over 6,000 individuals passedaway after a huge quake. KAHRAMANMARAS (TURKEY) – It is the last time Mesut Hancer will ever hold his 15-year-old child’s hand. And inspiteof the icy weathercondition, he declines to let it go, caressing her waxy fingers after she passedaway in the terrifying earthquake that hasactually ravaged southern Turkey and neighbouring Syria. Wrapped up in a fluorescent orange coat, Hancer knelt next to Irmak’s lifeless body as it lay under the debris on a bedmattress near the quake’s epicentre in Kahramanmaras province. He was too grief-stricken to speak. He merely sat and held her extending hand, the rest of her body still concealed by substantial pieces of concrete. Irmak is one of more than 6,256 individuals who passedaway in Turkey and Syria after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Monday, hurting thousands and leaving millions notable to return house duetothefactthat their homes either no longer exist or might collapse from an aftershock. For Irmak, it is too late. But as each hour brings more scary, fury and disappointment are increasing in Kahramanmaras, where citizens are lashing out at the state for what they see as its sluggish reaction to Turkey’s mostsignificant catastrophe in years. “Where is the state? Where are they? I can’t recover my sibling from the ruins. I can’t reach my nephew. Look around here. There is no state authorities here for God’s sake,” Ali Sagiroglu yelled in exasperation. His daddy and bro have disappeared in the debris, their fates unidentified.
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