South African rescue workers in Turkey have spoken about the death and destruction they're seeing following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, leaving thousands of people dead.
Salaam Foundation founder Azhar Vadi has described the search and rescue missions in Turkey as emotional.
Ahmed Bham from Gift of the Givers says the aid organisation has joined forces with a search and rescue agency which deploys volunteers to areas in need of assistance. This was the response of Azhar Vadi, the founder of the Salaam Foundation, about the search and rescue missions in earthquake-stricken Turkey. Vadi flew to Turkey on Monday to assist with search and rescue operations and food supply, among other things.
Vadi said he was concerned that the shortage of search and rescue services would leave scores of people unaccounted for.The window period for finding people alive is slowly diminishing. As the teams of diggers and tractors continue their work, the focus will move to look after the homeless and injured. Huge numbers of people are still missing and unaccounted for. That means they are probably in the rocks.
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