One last kiss for my daughter – Mother’s heart-breaking farewell for her little girl who was killed in Turkey-Syria earthquake
A Syrian mother has been pictured tenderly kissing the hand of her dead daughter after she was crushed to death in the city of Reyhanli, southeastern Turkey.
It is one of the most heart-wrenching images borne of the disaster so far and encapsulates the devastation and sorrow experienced by tens of thousands of people whose loved ones were lost amid this week’s brutal earthquakes.
The unnamed mother was seen looking on in despair as rescuers loaded her little girl’s lifeless corpse into a body bag for transportation to Syria for burial via van.
She took one last grief-stricken look at her daughter before zipping the bag shut, and was later seen leaning against the side of the van, clutching at the door handle with an expression of desolation etched across her face.
The heart-breaking scene of anguish and torment comes just days after a Turkish father was pictured sitting solemnly beside a collapsed building, refusing to let go of the cold hand of his daughter who could not escape and died beneath the debris.
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