Canada’s Sam Adekugbe describes the horror of the earthquake in Turkey
Canadian soccer participant Sam Adekugbe was one of many fortunate ones. He managed to flee earthquake-ravaged Antakya in Turkey.
Some of his teammates and workers at his membership Hatayspor are nonetheless lacking. The 28-year-old from Calgary is now secure in Istanbul with Canada captain Atiba Hutchinson, who performs for Besiktas. But he tells a harrowing story of being caught within the quake.
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Adekugbe was enjoyable at dwelling with some teammates after a Turkish league recreation Sunday night. The quake started as he began cleansing up his dwelling after they left.
He went exterior to search out the street cut up and folks yelling. After seeing the injury at his dwelling, he drove the 20 minutes to the crew coaching floor, seeing the devastation alongside the way in which — collapsed buildings, fires, folks crying, digging in rubble.
Adekugbe says persons are nonetheless lacking, together with the crew’s sporting director. There is confusion over the whereabouts of Ghana worldwide Christian Atsu, who was at Adekugbe’s dwelling that evening.
Antakya is positioned 1,100 kilometres southeast of Istanbul in a area bordered by the Mediterranean and Syria.
