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A photograph of a father holding the hand of his teenage daughter who died trapped under the rubble of a flattened building in the Turkish region of Kahramanmaras conveys the scale of the suffering provoked by Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake and its aftershocks.
KAHRAMANMARAS (TURKEY) - It was a moment encapsulating the unspeakable pain of the Turkish earthquake: a father holding his 15-year-old's hand, the only thing visible after her body was crushed by concrete.
Turkish father's pain symbolises quake tragedy
The death toll of the massive early morning earthquake which struck south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, has already surpassed 15,000 as of this
Thousands who lost their homes in a catastrophic earthquake huddled around campfires and clamored for food and water in the bitter cold, three days after the temblor.