Residents have expressed outrage at what they said were corrupt builders who cut corners to fatten their profits. “The concrete is like sand,” said one man. “It was built too quickly.”
As the death toll in Turkey and Syria neared 25,000, daunting challenges loomed to care for hundreds of thousands of homeless people amid the wreckage.
Residents said rescue crews and aid were initially slow to arrive after Monday’s powerful earthquake, which killed more than 21,000 people in Turkey and nearly 4,000 in neighbouring Syria