ADIYAMAN- What happened in Adıyaman, where more than 11 thousand people lost their lives in the earthquake, was reflected in the lenses of MA correspondents.

 

Adıyaman is one of the 10 cities in Maraş where earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6 caused severe damage. Tens of thousands of people have been injured in the city, where the death toll has exceeded 11 thousand so far. Despite the calls for help, search and rescue teams were able to arrive after 37 hours in the city, where thousands of buildings, including the city center, districts and villages, were destroyed. On the third day, he was only able to start search and rescue efforts.

 

What happened in Adıyaman, where the people were left to their fate, was reflected in the lenses of the Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporters.

 

 

1)On the first day of the earthquake, people are trying to save their relatives from the rubble with their own means.

 

 

2)On the first night of the earthquake, due to the lack of search and rescue teams and aid, the people at the head of the debris waited by the fire they burned in the city streets where the air temperature was below minus.

 

 

3)On the second day of the earthquake, a citizen tries to reach his wife, who was under the rubble, in Adıyaman Cumhuriyet Neighbourhood, where AFAD teams have not yet reached.

 

 

4)In the city, where the search and rescue teams have not yet arrived, a woman who could not hear from her relatives at the beginning of the rubble rebels.

 

 

5)On the second day of the earthquake, when voices came from the debris that search and rescue teams had not yet reached, citizens tried to lift the columns with the ropes they took.

 

 

6)On the night of the second day, the citizens continue their search under the rubble until late at night with the scoop they have provided with their own means.

 

 

7)The sign of Adıyaman Municipality with the words "We apologize for the inconvenience caused to the environment" while the work was started in the city reached by the search and rescue teams.

 

 

8)In the cemetery where those who lost their lives in Adıyaman are buried, a stone and a board were placed at the head of hundreds of graves lined up in rows.

 

 

9)Pain and despair together in Karapınar Cemetery.

 

 

10)The first reaction of Murat Fırat, who was pulled out of the rubble of the 7-storey building on Müftülük Street on the 3rd day of the earthquake.

 

 

11)While the ladles are working on the rubble, the corpses are held by the rubble.

 

 

12)While there were still inaccessible villages on the fifth day of the earthquake, people remained under the debris and the debris remained under the snow.

 

 

13)An elderly citizen, who is tired while collecting the remains of the rubble of his destroyed house, is breathing.

 

 

14)The building, the bottom floor of which was completely destroyed on the first day of the earthquake, and the other two floors lie towards the road, remains the same when the 10th day of the earthquake is over.

 

 

15)The aid campaign launched within the Crisis Coordination Center at the Alevi Culture Associations Adıyaman Branch continues at full speed.

 

 

16)While the Adıyaman Municipality building was destroyed in the earthquake, the only thing that remained intact was its sign board.

 

 

17)A baby cradle was hung on the collapsed walls of the house that was lying on its side in the earthquake.

 

 

18)While the palace-like building of the Adıyaman Governor's Office, which has been the focus of reactions since the first hours of the earthquake, is standing in place, the building just behind it, which it is responsible for inspecting, is in ruins.

 

 

19)The angry and pain-filled facial expression of an elderly citizen sitting by the stove in a tent, where he had been burning on the street for days in cold weather.

 

 

20)Volunteers, who have completed the tent city establishment with great efforts, are getting ready to drink the tea they have boiled over the fire they lit amidst the emotions mixed with sadness and pride.

 

 

21)The moment when the Buca Municipality Rescue Teams hugged each other and cried after the person they tried to pull out of the rubble died before he could be removed.

 

 

22)The phrase "Stay at Home Adıyaman", which was written in big letters during the pandemic period and lost its meaning, on the Social Services Provincial Directorate building, which was almost completely destroyed in Adıyaman.

 

 

23)An elderly citizen, who has been the victim of an earthquake for the second time, is trying to salvage the remains of his house, which has been destroyed.

 

MA / Ahmet Kanbal - Ömer Akın