'Unfathomable agony': Canadian soccer star Sam Adekugbe recounts the horror of living through the earthquake in Turkey
A man uses a flashlight to check damaged buildings, in the aftermath of an earthquake, in Antakya, Turkey, Feb. 8, 2023.When the shaking stopped, Adekugbe went outside into freezing rain, lighting and more chaos. People were yelling, screaming, roads were buckled and broken.
“As I started driving closer towards the training grounds … you started seeing even worse. Roads split, bridges broken, 12-storey highrises just completely collapsed. Families looking for the loved ones, parents looking for their kids, kids looking for their parents, and it was just … unfathomable.” “One of my other kitmen, his wife, she needs like urgent medical care but because the hospital was destroyed, she doesn’t have it.
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