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Assiya HAMZA

‘It’s too much’: Waiting for the dead in Turkey’s quake-stricken Nurdagi

40-year-old Nazle, with her daughter by her side, shows a photo of her loved ones buried underneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Nurdagi, southeastern Turkey. © Assiya Hamza, FRANCE 24

From our special correspondent in Turkey – Search and rescue teams are still at work amid an apocalyptic landscape in Nurdagi, a southeastern Turkish town near the epicentre of the January 6 earthquakes. But at this point they are looking for the remains of the dead, not survivors.

Nazle had been waiting day and night, sitting on a plastic chair, as gigantic construction machines turned over the debris of a collapsed building in the small town of Nurdagi. The dust and the noise were overwhelming.

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