Rescuers have found the bodies of three members of a group of 39 of a high school volleyball team that included boys and girls, in the debris of a hotel that collapsed due to the calamitous earthquake that left a trail of destruction in its wake on Wednesday,
In Turkey, rescuers searched the rubble of a hotel in Adiyaman where a young group of school volleyball players were staying.
February 8. The team were recently reported missing and feared dead after they traveled from Turkish-occupied Cyprus to southern Turkey just days before the deadly earthquake struck.
The bodies of two teachers and an eighth-grade student were found, per BBC. The children and their teachers were staying in the Isias hotel in the center of Adiyaman when the 7.8-magnitude quake struck and claimed more than 15,000 lives thus far. The majority of the city center was destroyed and several multi-story buildings collapsed, trapping thousands of residents in the rubble. Loved ones of the missing volleyball team bemoaned they had not had any contact with the group since disaster struck on Monday, February 6.
