As the hours pass, the number of people killed in the earthquake disaster in Turkey is increasing, while the rescue teams in the southeast of the country also know that the chances of finding the missing alive are slowly decreasing.
The reason is that it usually takes up to 24 hours from the moment of the collapse to find survivors, while the freezing weather in the disaster area does not leave much hope for the missing who have been under the rubble for more than a day.
Despite the temperatures dropping below zero, residents in the affected cities spent the first night after the disaster in the streets, in the freezing cold, with some huddling around fires to keep warm.
Some of the families who were left without a roof, and also those who are afraid of returning to their homes for fear of collapse, huddled in their cars that the heating was working.
Warming up under the fire the night after the earthquake, photo: AFP
Hundreds of rescuers and medical personnel began to flow to Turkey from the dozens of countries that promised aid after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
The quake rendered three major airports in the region inoperable, further hampering the delivery of vital aid.
The difficult rescue efforts contain indigestible moments, among other things, when you reach the survivors under the rubble and recognize that they did not last all the hours of the rescue.
In the city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, they managed to find three missing people in one building, but two of them were already dead.
A survivor of the earthquake in Turkey, photo: Burak Kara/Getty Images
On top of that, there is a lot of feeling of being missed when the missing contact them on the mobile phone that is with them under the rubble, but as the hours pass the missing do not answer and the rescuers know that they have missed another survivor.
A family evacuates from the earthquake area in Turkey, photo: Reuters
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