A British barber fears that up to 50 of his relatives and friends may have died in the catastrophic twin earthquakes which rocked Syria and Turkey a week ago today.
Ismail Yildiz, who has lived in Worcester since 2018, comes from the southern Turkish city of Adiyaman, which was destroyed in the quakes that have now taken over 35,000 lives.
The 37-year-old described his horrifying ordeal of waiting for news from his family said: "For the first two days, I could not reach any of them. I was worried about what happened if they were still alive or not."
