“I would be lying if I told you that I didn’t get scared. I got scared, but not because of the shaking. It was the sound of people, you know, people screaming so crazy.”
Behind the impersonal numbers and sensationalised images we hear and see in the media, there are the real lives of millions of people who have been profoundly impacted by tragic events such as the Turkey-Syria earthquake.
My friend Hussein, who lives in the city of Aleppo in Syria, is one of them. He told me all about his experience surviving the devastating earthquakes that shook his region in 2023.
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