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Dog Waits For Human After Massive Earthquake in Turkey

Dog looking for injured people in ruins after earthquake

In Turkey, an injured and weak dog sat in the rubble, waiting for her human to emerge from the wreckage after the massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

Source: Reuters/Youtube

The dog survived the earthquake but was injured and weak. The poor pup laid in the rubble by the building waiting for her human to come out. Locals have kept her company and even tried to move her once but she came right back to the building to wait to see her human.

“She (the owner) is still under the rubble here in this building. She hasn’t been rescued yet, and the dog is waiting for her,” Mustafa Sonmez, who knows the dog’s owner, told Reuters. “The dog came out alive the other day and has been waiting for her owner since then.”

“When the rescuers start using the tractor, she starts barking. Is there anything else to do? We are all waiting here, the dog is also waiting. There is nothing we can do except praying to God. We hope the owner will be rescued alive,” Sonmez said.

How to Help Turkey and Syria

Even before the crisis, over 15 million people in Syria were in need of humanitarian assistance according to The International Rescue Committee (IRC). Funding is urgently needed to help people who have been affected by the earthquakes. The IRC is working to provide emergency services to families in Turkey and Syria and refugee families in countries around the world. For a limited time, monthly donations will be matched as the organization works to Support communities during this crisis. They currently have over 1,000 staff inside Syria working tirelessly to provide lifesaving Support and they will be scaling up their response in Turkey as well.

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is also collecting funds for its disaster response emergency fund. This will Support “immediate cash assistance” in affected areas.

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