Turkey Earthquake: Nigerian Survivor Narrates Escape

Emmanuel Olaitan Johnson, a Turkey-based Nigerian has recounted how he survived the earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people in Turkey on Monday.

Johnson, who spoke with BBC Pidgin, explained that he sensed danger when he noticed the crack in his building wall, dressed only in pants, picked up his children, and dashed into the snow without any piece of clothing.

“I was in my building and I noticed it was shaking but I wasn’t perturbed at first. But when I saw a crack in the wall, I grabbed my wife and children and ran out of the house.

As I speak to you, my family and I are now homeless,” he told BBC Pidgin.
on Monday, a massive earthquake killed more than 2,700 people across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the many thousands left injured or homeless and hampering efforts to find survivors, Reuters reports.

The magnitude 7.8 quake brought down whole apartment blocks in Turkish cities and piled more devastation on millions of Syrians displaced by years of war.

The worst tremor to strike Turkey this century came before sunrise in harsh weather and was followed in the early afternoon by another large quake of magnitude 7.7