Woman tells of Turkish collapse rescue

Surrounded by the stench of decaying bodies, Yasemin Yaprakci scraped her fingernails against the shattered concrete of her collapsed apartment building today, hoping to alert rescuers that she was buried under the pulverised wreckage.

Woman tells of Turkish collapse rescue

Surrounded by the stench of decaying bodies, Yasemin Yaprakci scraped her fingernails against the shattered concrete of her collapsed apartment building today, hoping to alert rescuers that she was buried under the pulverised wreckage.

“Water, water,” she cried out.

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