among them, yunus fiance. they were just weeks away from getting married. translation: | was| planning to dress her in a wedding dress, but now i will dress her in a funeral shroud. i am like the walking dead, i am the living dead. i lost my feelings. each of these bundles marks a future cut short, a family separated. every hour, the death toll rises, and even now, it is impossible to know how many lives this quake has claimed. anna foster, bbc news, maras. the situation in northern syria was desperate even before the earthquake struck the region is home to millions of refugees displaced by years of civil war. the group of volunteers known as the white helmets are leading the rescue efforts, as our international editor, jeremy bowen, reports. something to celebrate at last in a place without much good news. a family of six was rescued alive from
they need to be inside. in another collapsed building not far away, a british german team are helping local people to search. they risk their lives for moments like this. allahu akbar! a mother and child pulled from the ruins, freezing, exhausted, but alive. the team have been working on a work site for the last few hours. and i m very glad to say they have just been able to pull someone out of the rubble pile and pass them over to paramedics locally. it is places like this that really show you why the death toll keeps rising. this was an entire neighbourhood, and it s completely destroyed. it was hundreds of apartments, thousands of people, and the majority of them are still buried under these vast mounds of smoking rubble. good news is becoming increasingly rare here in maras.
from the ruins, freezing, exhausted, but alive. the team have been working on a work site for the last few hours. and i m very glad to say they ve just been able to pull someone out of the rubble pile and pass them over to paramedics locally. it s places like this that really show you why the death toll keeps rising. this was an entire neighbourhood, and it s completely destroyed. it was hundreds of apartments, thousands of people, and the majority of them are still buried under these vast mounds of smoking rubble. good news is becoming increasingly rare in maras. each day, the number of bodies goes up. it s impossible to know how many more might be found. keenan travelled here from doncaster as soon as he heard the news of the quake. his brother is in there, somewhere. i tried yesterday to dig myself, but you can t.
caused. this is a big city. what they also do as they try and focus on buildings like this one, the bigger buildings as well. even in maras, there are buildings where nobody is going through the rubble, nobody is going through the rubble, nobody is going through the rubble, nobody is searching for the survivors. 0r searching for bodies. and when you get outside of the big cities, again, the smaller towns, they have heard, many of them, no help at all yet. it s not that they help at all yet. it s not that they help has not been promised. the international community has said that they will send whatever turkey needs. it sjust that they will send whatever turkey needs. it s just a that they will send whatever turkey needs. it sjust a question that they will send whatever turkey needs. it s just a question of actually getting at here through, in some cases, mountain roads, to get here, where the asphalt, the service, is cracked and broken. it leads to huge queues on the roads because you h
and here in maras, ambulances are now hearses. they have spent the whole day here searching for bodies, and the light is starting to fade now, but the rescuers say they will come back tomorrow and the next day. they will return to sites like this for as long as it takes to return loved ones to their relatives. they are rare, but there are still moments of hope. a little girl, healthy and alive, after three days buried. the rescuers celebrate. she says her siblings are down there as well. today, president aldo and came to visit those who have lost everything. but there is growing anger that help is coming too slowly and that is not enough of it. president erdogan. he says it is impossible to prepare for disasters