At this time, among the ruins, people are making a fire and there are many volunteers distributing food.
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
“KP” correspondent Vladimir Velengurin visited the regions of Turkey destroyed after strong earthquakes and told what he saw there, on the air of Radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.
As Velengurin noted, “rescue work is in full swing” and the results can already be seen.
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
“A lot of huge debris has already been removed, it is already clear that the work has already been completed in some places. Little by little, life is returning to normal, or rather, people have already adapted to living in the conditions they are in now,” he said, noting that in the early days there was “just enormous chaos,” and today “He more or less started lining up in such a life that it is.
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
Velengurin said that he was on a plane with a woman who has lived in Turkey for seven years and shared his feelings with him. A woman named Lyudmila stated that she herself was from Nizhny Novgorod and married a Turk, with whom they lived in the center of the city of Kahramanmarash, which was the epicenter of the earthquake.
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
“In the first hours there was a kind of chaos, no one came, people were left alone, chaos and panic reigned,” a KP correspondent recounted the woman’s words.
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
At the same time, Lyudmila said that the Turks have a custom to put powerful safe-type doors, “with such things, with widenings that close the doors in all directions.” “And when the earthquake happened, many people couldn’t open the doors, they got stuck and some people died just because of those doors,” Velengurin said.
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
The KP correspondent also commented on reports that 57 people were arrested on looting charges after the earthquake.
“Lyudmila only said that jewelry stores, banks, only shops were looted in the first hours … At least, such rumors circulate. To be honest, I somehow can’t believe it… I don’t know if it’s a rumor or the truth, however, all this is going around the city,” Velengurin said.
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
According to him, at this moment, among the ruins, people are making fire and there are many volunteers distributing food. “In general, there is a good human atmosphere, disinterested, people help each other,” said Vladimir Velengurin, a photographer for kp.ru.
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
Let us remember that on Monday, February 6, two powerful earthquakes occurred, whose magnitude was 7.4 and 7.7. Seismologists warned that this region of Turkey would still experience tremors and several earthquakes with a magnitude of around 5 were recorded later. As KP.RU wrote, according to the latest data, the number of earthquake victims in Turkey reached 31,643.
