‘I lost my angels’: red balloons mark youth killed in devastating Turkey quake


Antakya (Turkey) (AFP) – Dozens of red balloons speckle the rubble of a destroyed building alongside a main road in Turkey’s quake-hit south. They are the final tribute to children killed by the earthquake that devastated Antakya, according to Ogun Sever Okur, who is behind the memorial. “The dominant feeling in me is grief” he says as he hangs the balloons. “I distribute toys to the surviving children and, for the other children who were here, this is the last toy I could give them”.

©AFP

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