Special envoy to Iskenderun
A thick column of smoke obscures the sky above Iskenderun.
Threatening, it overlooks all the districts of the city.
After the earthquake, a fire broke out at the port, in this coastal city in the province of Antioch, in southern Turkey.
On the quays, the firefighters do not stop watering the blaze: a jumble of containers eaten away by the flames.
“The fire is under control”,
assures a security officer busy managing the passage of emergency vehicles.
In the parking lot of the port industrial zone, a group of Iranian truck drivers are resting.
Their trucks have been stopped since the earthquake.
“We had to unload metal parts here.
Now we are waiting for our boss's authorization to leave,"
says Veli, a driver from Tabriz.
.
"Do you think it's toxic?"
, he worries, pointing to the black curls swirling in the air.
A Canadair flies over the city.
Other hearths were lit under the…
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