First night in Malatya: We were left alone 

2023-02-07 10:02:59


	 

	MALATYA- The biggest wish of the people of Malatya is to wake up the next morning by warming the hands of the state that the state cannot hold.

	 

	Malatya, one of the cities most affected by the 7.7-7.6 magnitude earthquake in Maraş and Gaziantep, was left to its fate. According to the first statements made by Vice President Fuat Oktay yesterday morning, it is stated that more than 300 buildings were destroyed in Malatya, where 47 lives were lost and 550 injured.

	 

	MALATYA HAS BEEN LEFT ALONE

	 

	When the search and rescue work took place in a hostel in Yeşilyurt district. Despite the snowfall and freezing cold, the citizens, who were waiting for their relatives under the rubble, said that they were left alone. While a construction worker from Mardin, who had been waiting for his uncle and aunt in front of the wreckage since the morning, spoke that the iron used in the pension columns was too thin to carry the building, the words of a gendarme in the vicinity, "again, smuggled out of the building's property" were also noteworthy. Earthquake survivors, who had to sleep in the huts they built from the branches and clothes left under the trees to avoid the wind, stated that they could only reach a bowl of soup for very long hours.

	 

	PEOPLE WANT BASIC NEEDS AND FOOD

	 

	The only thing that a pregnant woman with two children wanted was diapers and food for her children; however, she was just one of the citizens who could not reach even their most basic needs for about 25 hours. After following the search and rescue efforts for a while, it was still not time for dozens of debris buildings along the street or the work was interrupted.