Mauro Icardi and Wanda Nara shared messages of encouragement and condolences for Turkey, the country in which they find themselves and which is currently suffering the devastating consequences of a very strong earthquake measuring 7.8 that occurred early on Monday morning.
Icardi posted an image of a black ribbon and a legend in Turkish, “geçmi olsun”, which is Spanish for “get well soon“.
Wanda did the same with a photograph of a black ribbon similar to Icardi’s and used the same phrase as the father of her daughters. isabella AND Frances.
As Nara showed in their goals, the pair are in the capital Istanbul, since Icardi plays for Galatasaray. In a series of stories prior to the condolence message, Wanda was seen with some of her children at the stadium of the club where Icardi plays.
The disaster, which occurred in southeastern Turkey and also in northern Syria, It happened more than 1,100 kilometers from where the Argentines are.
The catastrophe
According to Ansa, the victims so far have been more than 2,650about 9,000 injured, but according to USGS experts the balance of the earthquake, whose epicenter was in Kahramanmaras with a hypocenter 10 kilometers deep, it could reach 10,000 dead. According to the WHO, there could be up to eight times more victims than today.
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, proclaimed 7 days of national mourning. All schools will be closed for a week and all sporting activities suspended.
The quake, recorded by seismographs around the world, destroyed more than 2,800 buildings in Turkey alone. Immediately after, the first three shocks were recorded, in rapid succession, respectively of magnitude 5.6, 5.2 and 5. Shortly after there were 7.5 near southeast of Ekinozu, about 200 kilometers from the epicenter of the first earthquake.
There were a total of at least 120 aftershocks. A series that seemed endless, and that also made itself felt in Lebanon, Greece, Israel, Cyprus, even Greenland. Hundreds of cities affected.
The situation in Syria is also dire. Aleppo, a city martyred in the civil war, where a priest also died, has been hit hard. Devastated refugee camps on the border with Turkey, where at least 3 million displaced people already needed everything.
Source: Clarin
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