Along with all the grief and sadness being felt, there is anger that more is not being done in the rescue effort, with many directing their blame at the Turkish government.
1:55The people of Antakya are not only desperate, there is real anger here too.
We saw others using hammers and pickaxes, any tools they could lay their hands on to try to reach relatives they say are buried below and who may just be alive.Another woman, Cagla Ezer, sobbed as she revealed she'd heard her brother calling out for help. She said he was calling out his name and begging for help.
A short distance away a string of people were crawling through the smashed window of a supermarket door and loading shopping trolleys full of goods. Others crawled out with big packs of toilet rolls."We are hungry," one young man told us,"and no one is helping us".
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