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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Henriette Chacar and Ali Kucukgocmen

'How can that be?': Man sticks to vigil after hunt for relatives in Turkey quake ruins called off

A man walks by a collapsed building and rubble, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Antakya, Hatay province, Turkey, February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

More than two weeks after huge earthquakes devastated Turkey's Antakya, Mustafa Kazzaz was camped near the rubble of his family's building, refusing to move even after the search for the bodies of his father, brother and sister had ended.

"They worked and worked. They dug out the whole building," he said, sitting alone in darkness on a plot of land across from the building his family lived in.

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