Turkey quake: a father’s pain
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| The collapsed apartment building in Kahramanmaras where Irmak died on February 6, 2023 (AFP / Adem Altan) |
AFP photographer Adem Altan was taking pictures of a collapsed apartment building in Kahramanmaras the day after the earthquake hit the Turkish city when he noticed a man sitting alone in the middle of the rubble.
With rescue teams yet to arrive, people who lived in the block were trying to get to loved ones trapped under the piles of concrete and broken bricks.
But one man was not moving despite the rain and the freezing cold. It was then that Adem noticed that he was holding a hand. He trained his camera on him from about 60 meters (200 feet). It was a delicate moment, but the man in the orange jacket called him in.
