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    'Where are my kids?' Families in Turkey plead for help finding loved ones lost amid earthquake rubble

    by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times Feb 08, 2023 4 minutes
    Survivors gather next to a bonfire outside collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, on Feb. 8, 2023, after their homes were destroyed in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6.

    ANTAKYA, Turkey — Sarwan Oghlu shook her head and screamed as she stood before the building that had been her family's home, and where her youngest daughter and son, aged 12 and 7, remained, amid floors flattened one against the other.

    As her sister and two daughters strained to calm her, she pleaded with God.

    "Where are my kids? If you love me get me my kids. I won't go anywhere before my kids return," she said, her shouts made raspy by grief. "For three days I've been here. God, you've heard everyone but not me."

    She turned to a group of rescue workers standing nearby, her face rapidly shifting from sadness to

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