The earthquake between Turkey and Syria on Monday exceeded 20,000 victims, the Ankara emergency and disaster agency speaks of over 63,000 injured, but there are still many missing and they are digging through the rubble in the hope of recovering some survived. The Italian firefighters are also operating in Turkey and yesterday managed to save two boys in two separate operations in Antioch.
And there is no news of Angelo Zen, a 60-year-old goldsmith consultant from Veneto . His last traces lead to Kahramanmaras, a Turkish city of one million inhabitants, the epicenter of the earthquake, razed to the ground by the quake. The morning following the last contact, he was supposed to meet, explains Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, a Turkish associate to discuss work. A meeting canceled from the course of events. The hotel he was staying in collapsed. His mobile rings free but no one answers. However, the family hopes that the man is alive but does not have the opportunity to hear from him.
After the earthquake of magnitude 7.8 , there were at least 125 other aftershocks of magnitude 4.0 or higher recorded subsequently: this was reported by the US Geophysical Institute Usgs.
(Unioneonline/ss)
