The German undertakers burying Turkiye's earthquake dead


By AGENCY
  • People
  • Saturday, 25 Feb 2023

A man sits next to his collapsed house while a search team looks for people under the rubble in the epicentre of the earthquake in Kahramanmaras. Photos: Ahmed Deeb/dpa

There is only a crater in this southern Turkyish town where houses once stood, destroyed by a series of earthquakes.

Mortician Rene Stawinski watches as excavators work to remove the piles of rubble.

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