Turkey honours earthquake child victims with red balloons on ruins

The red balloon represents passion. Turkey honours earthquake child victims with red balloons on earthquake ruins. Red balloons hung atop ruins are tied by different rescue organizers to honour the dreams of the little souls that lost their lives in the earthquake. Many photographs and videos of children being rescued from the wreckage of fallen buildings are circulating in Turkey.

Pupils, aged 11 to 14, were on a school volleyball trip and staying in Adiyaman when disaster struck. Twenty-four back-to-back funerals have been held in North Cyprus for children who died in the devastating earthquake in Turkey.

The youngsters, aged 11 to 14, were on a school volleyball trip and staying in the Grand Isias hotel in Adiyaman. Ten parents, four teachers and a trainer were also killed. The team had reportedly travelled for two days to the southern Turkish city from the Turkey-aligned northern part of the island state.

They were staying in the ten-floor hotel having won a match on February 6 the day the earthquake struck, destroying the hotel and leaving them trapped beneath the rubble. Turkey honours earthquake child victims with red balloons to honour their little dreams which were taken very soon.

Including those who died in Syria from the quake, the total death toll has now reached 36,970. There have additionally been more than 2,000 aftershocks as the Earth’s crust readjusts from the shake which had hampered efforts to save those trapped under rubble.

Volunteers in Turkey have placed red balloons on the rubble of destroyed buildings, to remember child victims of the recent earthquakes.

Employees are still working tirelessly to help earthquake victims in different parts of the nation. Unfortunately, they see catastrophes every day involving individuals who could not be rescued in time. In a new video published on Twitter by Izzet Capa, balloons are hung above the wreckage in honour of the children who died in the tragic earthquake.

Led by photographer Ogun Sever Okur, they climbed up the debris in Hatay and attached balloons to metal wires sticking out of the piles of debris.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in southern Turkey and northern Syria.

More than seven million children have been affected by the massive earthquake and a major aftershock that devastated Turkey and Syria last week, the United Nations said Tuesday, voicing fear that “many thousands” more had died.

“In Turkey, the total number of children living in the 10 provinces hit by the two earthquakes was 4.6 million children. In Syria, 2.5 million children are affected,” James Elder, spokesman for the UN children’s agency Unicef, told reporters in Geneva.

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He spoke as rescue teams began winding down the search for survivors from the disastrous quake that has left more than 35,000 dead in the two countries.

“Unicef fears many thousands of children have been killed,” Mr. Elder said, warning that “even without verified numbers, it is tragically clear that numbers will continue to grow.”

He said he feared the final toll would be “mind-boggling.”

Given the catastrophic, and ever-increasing, death toll, he said it was obvious that “many, many children will have lost parents in these devastating earthquakes.”

“It will be a terrifying figure,” he warned.

Among the rubble, hundreds of thousands of homeless people face cold and hunger.

Families with children were “sleeping in the streets, malls, schools, mosques, bus stations and under bridges, staying with their children in open areas for fear of going home,” he said.