At least 6,000 buildings have been reduced to rubble in the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, including centuries-old monuments. Parts of the Gaziantep Castle, built during the Roman Empire in Turkey, have collapsed, and structures in Aleppo’s old city in Syria have been reportedly damaged The 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria claimed more than 5,000 lives, leaving …
People who are stuck in the province take refuge in shopping malls, stadiums, mosques and community centres. “Then, we were just waiting in a traffic jam the whole night and morning in Nurdagi, and we had to find an alternative way south.” Yahaya Hassan Labaran, a Nigerian civil engineering PhD student at Gaziantep University, said that foreign students living alone …
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