Earthquake in Turkey | “What has struck me the most is the number of deaths”: the testimony of a Venezuelan student who lived through the destructive earthquake

  • daisy rodriguez
  • BBC News World

image source, REUTERS/Emilie Madi

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Adana, in southern Turkey, in a photo from February 7.

“Around 4:30 in the morning, when the earthquake occurred, I was in my bedroom,” says Francisco Quintero.

“It was very strong, it was felt throughout the building.”

In conversation with BBC Mundo, this 20-year-old Venezuelan evokes the earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria early Monday morning and left thousands dead and injured.

Has been one of the most devastating in recent years.

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