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[UPDATE] Earthquake: Four-year-old son, dad wait as rescuers search for mum
The Turkish authorities say that 8,000 people have been retrieved from the rubble across the country. Relief teams have poured in from all over the world but time is quickly running out in below-freezing temperatures, according to Sky News.
A four-year-old boy and his father, Ibrahim, are waiting while rescuers search for Ibrahim’s wife — the child’s mother — who is lost in the rubble in Gaziantep, Turkey, close to the epicentre of Monday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the transcontinental country.
There is impatience among victims’ families of the quake with fights breaking out sporadically as families are agitated over the diggers operation which they say is taking too long, according to a report by Sky News.
It has now been over 48 hours since the first earthquake struck and families of those buried in the rubble are concerned about the survival of their loved ones as their chances to survive are getting slimmer.
The Turkish authorities say that 8,000 people have been retrieved from the rubble across the country. Relief teams have poured in from all over the world but time is quickly running out in below-freezing temperatures, according to Sky News.
