CILVEGOZU, Turkey - They arrived at the border in taxis, run-down vans and in piles atop flatbed trucks: black body bags carrying Syrian refugees killed by the earthquake in Turkey, now being taken to final resting places in their war-ravaged homeland. Relatives clutched paperwork issued by the local authorities that would let the dead – but not their living relatives...
Turkish authorities are allowing bodies of Syrian refugees certified by Turkish hospitals to cross into northern Syria.CILVEGOZU, Turkey - They arrived at the border in taxis, run-down vans and in piles atop flatbed trucks: black body bags carrying Syrian refugees killed by the earthquake in Turkey, now being taken to final resting places in their war-ravaged homeland.
Mr Ossama Abdulrazzaq, a tall Syrian, eyes bleary with tears, checked the paperwork for his sister’s body. In Kirikhan, Turkish rescue teams with cranes were pulling back rubble from homes on Wednesday, aided by Syrians in work gloves looking for their own relatives.Carrying crumpled family photographs, the Syrian man wept on the sidewalk as rescuers brought his daughter-in-law, also pregnant, then his two grandchildren. His son was still missing.
Mr Zaher Kharbotly, a stocky 43-year-old man from the Syrian province of Idlib, somehow still had hope.
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