A British software developer who survived the earthquake in Turkey has told The Mirror of his horror hearing people buried alive under the concrete.
Timothy Whiting, 29, has lived in the wider region for the past five years and was visiting Antakya, in the country's south, when twin earthquakes — the first a magnitude 7.8 and the second a 7.5 — hit Turkey and neighbouring Syria.
Entire city blocks were flattened in the city which borders Syria, and as the total death toll has now passed 9,500, the chances of finding survivors are slimming.