More than 50,000 people have been killed and millions left homeless after earthquakes turned entire cities in Turkey and Syria into rubble.
, thousands of others missing and millions left homeless after the disaster turned entire cities into nothing but rubble.
Rescue teams from all over the world poured into Turkey immediately after the earthquake, but in Syria people were left to fend for themselves. The 14-year-old, who was stuck under the rubble for three days, said: ‘I realised one of my nieces was alive because I could hear her crying.‘She was only a five-month-old baby and her face was smashed and deformed.
Six months on, Ali says he still feels like his leg is there and sometimes even has electrical shocks in it. Nadim Hassan’s wife and three of their four children were killed in the disaster. Only him and eight-year-old son Habib survived. ‘I told her to keep her faith and say a verse from the Quran. She began speaking but then passed away. After that, I heard the voice of my little boy but it then also disappeared.
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