Families are anxiously waiting for their loved ones to be pulled out as rescuers work through the rubble in Turkey's southern Adana district.
Rescuers are racing to find survivors in the rubble of buildings in Adana that were brought down by Monday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake.Every now and then, the rescuers sifting through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Adana in Turkey's south turn their machines off and scream out for total silence.They wait for a long moment, hoping to hear a reply from the beneath the ruins.
"When she didn't call me, I was worried. I called her and she didn't pick up. And so far, she hasn't answered her phone."Nurten's two granddaughters, aged 16 and 18, are sleeping by her side. They have refused to leave the footpath outside their mother's apartment building since they learned it had come crashing down."The eldest daughter says, 'Without my mother, I can't sleep'.Rescuers have spent days searching through buildings that the earthquake reduced to rubble.Four of his close friends were living in another building brought down during the earthquake."They found two people, injured, but alive," Taylan says.
Taylan's close friends, a family of four, were trapped under the rubble of their building. Two have now been found, but the other two are still missing.Moments like that give a dose of desperately needed hope to the rest of the families still hoping their loved ones will defy the odds and be found alive.Her sister is trapped in the ruins."It was like my sister got rescued. I was just as happy.
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