From our special correspondents in Kahramanmaras – In the quake-stricken Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, locals and rescue workers are digging through the rubble, some with their bare hands, clinging to hopes of a miracle as they hunt for survivors of Monday’s devastating earthquakes in a frantic race against the clock – and the bitter cold.
Stunned by the tremors and numb from the bitter cold, a group of women huddle around a fire, some wrapped in blankets, motionless shadows in a landscape of desolation. They are waiting for news of a child, a husband or a sibling, buried under a sea of rubble where their homes once stood. All around them, backhoes dig through the debris in a clatter of concrete, metal and mud.
