Turkish man’s photo holding hand of dead daughter displays human struggle post-earthquake
Videos and photographs of the two earthquakes that have destroyed southern Turkey and northern Syria show rescuers digging with their hands, apartment blocks crushed to the grouds in seconds and the shaking apart of a castle that had stood for almost two millennia. The incident has killed at least 7,800 people.
One of the photographs from the Turkish region of Kahramanmaraş depicts the sufferings of a father who holds the hand of his dead teenage daughter as rescuers and civilians search through the flattened building where she died on Monday, reports The Guardian.
Mesut Hancer, the father of 15-year-old Irmak, holds her hand sitting hunched in the rubble as she lies on her bed beneath the slabs of concrete, smashed windows and broken bricks that were once apartments. Close to them, a man with a sledgehammer tries to smash his way through the ruins.
Pazarcık district of Kahramanmaraş, which lies in south-east Turkey, was the epicentre of the first earthquake. The initial, 7.8-magnitude earthquake, was followed, hours later, by a second quake that measured 7.7 on the Richter scale, reports The Guardian.
Pictures from the affected zone present to us the level of suffering of the people, following the natural disaster.
Rescuers pulled two children alive from the rubble, one of whom lay on a stretcher on the snowy ground elsewhere in Kahramanmaraş province and also quieted the people who had gathered, trying to help so they could hear survivors and find them.
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Waqf Bill anti-secular, will snatch rights of Muslims: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday described the Waqf (Amendment) Bill as “anti-secular”, claiming that it would snatch the rights of Muslims.
Banerjee, speaking in the assembly, also said the Centre did not consult with states over the matter.
“The bill is anti-federal and anti-secular; it is a deliberate attempt to malign a particular section. It will snatch the rights of Muslims... The Centre did not consult with us on the Waqf Bill,” she said.
The chief minister added that “if any religion was attacked”, she would wholeheartedly condemn it.
Opposition parties have stridently criticised the amendments proposed by the bill in the existing Waqf Act, alleging that they violate the religious rights of Muslims.
The ruling BJP has asserted that the amendments will bring transparency in the functioning of the Waqf boards and make them accountable.
A parliamentary committee has been constituted to scrutinise the contentious bill.
