Scott Mc Kiernan presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #889: TUESDAY May 16, 2023: ‘THE LONG WAIT: Part I’ by all time Pulitzer Prize (4 times) winning, ZUMA Press photo-journalist CAROL GUZY. Two families wait among others in painful desperation for over a week in a parking lot in Hatay, Turkey as bodies of their loved ones are pulled from the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed after a massive 7.8 earthquake struck. Thousands were killed there and other cities in Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023. The first earthquake on February 6 that hit southeastern Turkey and northern Syria measured a magnitude of 7.8 and a second, a little later, measured 7.6. The region has been rocked by more than 9,000 aftershocks since. Nearly 240,000 rescue workers, including volunteers, continue to work in the 11 quake-hit provinces in Turkey. The confirmed death toll stood at 59,259. Welcome to ‘THE LONG WAIT: Part I’
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