2 hours agoTurkey: Thirty-member volleyball team hotel collapses completely, no bodies still found
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)About 30 members of a school volleyball team that travelled from Cyprus to southern Turkey several days before the region was hit by the earthquake are missing and allegedly dead. Students and their teachers were staying at the Isias Hotel in the center of the city of Antijaman when the area was hit by quake 7.8 [...]
Students and their teachers were staying at the Isias Hotel in the center of the city of Antijaman when the area was hit by quake 7.8, which so far has killed more than 16 thousand people.
Most of the city's center has been destroyed with high buildings turned into ruins, blocking thousands of people.
The missing family said they had no contact with the volleyball team since Monday's disaster.
Officials fear that groups from Namik Kemal High School and Turkish Maarif College in Fanagusta are among the missing.
In fact, rescue teams have travelled from the Family to help research.
The team had butterflies in Antiyaman, Turkey to participate in a volleyball league and included a total of 28 students and their friends.
Relatives of students have rushed to Antiyaman to help research and learn about their children.
According to “Cyprus Mail”, a mother who flew to Antiyaman said: “There is no news about our children, anyone we asked told us that no children came out. Hotel 8 floor has completely collapsed.”, forward abcnews. al
But the hopes of finding other survivors trapped in the ruins of thousands of buildings turned to dust from the earthquake are disappearing, as the death toll has exceeded over 16 thousand.
