A Syrian refugee identified as Amhad Idris lost 25 relatives in the earthquake that has devastated Turkey and Syria after his entire family ‘fled the war to find shelter’, DailyMail reported.
Mr. Idris, 40, visited the morgue Wednesday and walked between the bodies of his loved ones. Idris was crying while checking bodies inside makeshift morgue.
While clutching onto his dead grandson he said: ‘You have ached my heart. With everything that has happened. I never thought something like this could happen.
‘I lost my daughter; two of her sons – I mean my grandchildren; my daughter’s father-in-law’s family; my daughter’s mother-in-law and his sons – one of whom had children, a big family and several sons too.
‘It is a total of about 25 people,’ he told Sky News. Mr Idris and his family had fled their home country to find refuge in Saraqib in 2012, which was recaptured by the Syrian army in 2020.
He said: ‘We fled the war. Look at the injustice that pursues us, and what happened to us.
‘We came here on the basis of finding safe shelter for us and our children. But in the end, look how fate has caught up with us here.’
Officials and medics have said around 9,057 people had died in Turkey and 2,662 in Syria from the 7.8-magnitude quake on Monday, bringing the total to 11,719.
The death toll is higher than the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated Nepal in 2015, which killed more than 8,800 people – making it the deadliest seismic event in more than a decade.
