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A father and mother should never see a child die. Instead, it happened again: the 12-year-old boy, who was pulled out alive on Saturday morning, didn’t make it, but in serious condition, under the rubble of Antioch in Hatay province after the earthquake that devastated Turkey. Down there he had been clinging to life for over 296 hoursi.e. 12 days. With him were his parents, his mother Raqqa and his father Samir Muhammed Accar. The adults survived and are still in the hospital, but the son is not. The 12-year-old did not make it to the hospital alive.
Meanwhile, in Turkey and Syria, the two countries hit by the earthquake, excavations continue. Rescuers have not lost the energy with which they have worked since the tragic night of February 6, but the possibility of finding people still alive is dwindling. The numbers confirm the catastrophe:
the toll has now exceeded 45,000 casualties. 39,672 people are missing in Turkey. In Syria, on the other hand, there are 5,800.
The prayers of the Muslims and the intervention of the Pope – Prayers were held in mosques around the world for the victims of the earthquake: many could not receive funeral rites given the scale of the terrible disaster. While aid from the Vatican had also left after Pope Francis met Turkey’s new ambassador to the Holy See, Ufuk Uluta, on February 16. The Pope asked about the urgent needs of the population and recommended to the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, “an hour after meeting the Holy Father – Cardinal Konrad Krajewski told Vatican News – who explained to me what they needed”. . The diplomat’s list mainly included canned food, but also diapers and many other materials that withstand the weather and even the cold. The cargo has already left for Istanbul.