KAHRAMANMARAS/Türkiye
An earthquake survivor family resides in the exact same camping tent with their dog who cautioned them by growling prior to the Feb. 6 catastrophe in Türkiye.
Hatice Avci, who resides in southern Kahramanmaras province with her spouse and child, keeps her dog “Mihriban” with her, who woke them up by scratching and growling at around 4 a.m. — 18 minutes prior to the earthquake.
The dog then climbed up onto a chair on the veranda and started to groan, Avci said.
Speaking to Anadolu, Avci kept in mind that Mihriban is generally an extremely docile animal and does not bark at all.
“When she began to get grouchy (prior to the quake), I took her in so that the next-door neighbors would not be disrupted. She went to the veranda once again and began to groan once again. I took her within once again. She was bad-tempered in my lap, she was scratching and wished to go out,” she remembered.
“Now we are together in the camping tent, and she’s resting on our laps. For the very first 3 days, she did not consume at all, she was really afraid. She is comfy in the camping tent, however really bad-tempered when she enters our destroyed house,” she said.
Avci, who was settled in a camping tent city established in a sports complex with her family after their house was seriously harmed in the quakes, treats her dog Mihriban with kid gloves.
On Feb. 6, magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes struck many Turkish provinces, taking control of 50,000 lives.
Around 14 million individuals in Türkiye have actually been impacted by the quakes in addition to lots of others in northern Syria.
*Writing by Zehra Nur Duz in Ankara
