Longford aid worker tells of Turkey-Syrian earthquake horror
A Longford aid worker has spoken of how scores of people caught up in the Turkey earthquake disaster have been left “terrified” and forced to sleep in cars after a fresh tremor killed six people along the Turkish-Syrian border.
Aughnacliffe woman Gillian Boyle was speaking just hours after a a 6.4 magnitude earthquake wreaked further havoc on Tuesday after it struck near the southern Turkish city of Antakya.
Gillian, an aid worker with Irish overseas aid charity Concern for the past eight years, said the scale of the devastation following an even larger earthquake which killed more than 47,000 people two weeks earlier, was hard to quantify.
“There are a lot of traumatised people,” she said, when speaking from Concern’s office in Sanliurfa.
“It is hard to see the faces of people that are so terrified.
“When I woke up this morning (Tuesday) there were more buildings partially down and it really is quite terrifying for these people.”
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