By Christian George
A Medical charity organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres, has arrived Syria on Sunday with not fewer than 14 trucks to assist the quake rescue operations.
While local rescue team were not expecting to recover any survivor, their effort has been tilted to recovering dead bodies for the families.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is said to have arrived Turkey on Sunday to discuss how Washington can further assist Ankara as it grapples with the aftermath of a devastating tragedy.
According to Reuters, so far, death toll is said to have passed 46,000 and rescue team is working on recovering more bodies from the rubble.
“Would you pray to find a dead body? We do … to deliver the body to the family,” said bulldozer operator Akin Bozkurt as his machine clawed at the rubble of a destroyed building in the town of Kahramanmaras.
“You recover a body from under tonnes of rubble. Families are waiting with hope,” Bozkurt added, “they want to have a burial ceremony. They want a grave.”
The head of Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority Yunus Sezer, said that the search may likely be called off Sunday night.
