The team from Turkish Maarif College in Famagusta, in the Turkish Cypriot-controlled North, had travelled to Adiyaman for a match when their hotel collapsed. Locals say help took two days to arrive.
The last of back-to-back funerals for 24 children, who were in Turkey on a school volleyball trip when their hotel collapsed, have taken place in North Cyprus.struck.The team from Turkish Maarif College in Famagusta, in the Turkish Cypriot-controlled North, had travelled to Adiyaman for the tournament together with their trainers, teachers and parents.
Ten parents, four teachers and a trainer were also killed when the quake destroyed the hotel and left them trapped beneath the rubble. Crowds attended the funerals on Friday and Saturday, and hundreds were present at two more services held on Sunday for trainer Osman Cetintas and team member Havin Kilic.
One local in Nicosia, the capital of the breakaway north, told Sky News:"It's really sad. The island is so small that everyone knows of someone whose child or grandchild died. There's just a really sad feeling here since it happened. They've been having funerals for the children for days."
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