No ambulance but bombs for the trapped civilians with wounds in Cizre
The building where 28 injured and slain people remain trapped in Cizre for the past 4 days, has once again come under intensified fire of Turkish forces Tuesday noon.
The building where 28 injured and slain people remain trapped in Cizre for the past 4 days, has once again come under intensified fire of Turkish forces Tuesday noon.
The building where 28 injured and slain people remain trapped in Cizre for the past 4 days, has once again come under intensified fire of Turkish forces Tuesday noon.
4 of these people have died of blood loss whilst waiting for an ambulance, while one among the injured, Sultan Irmak, is reported to be in very critical condition at the moment, about to die.
As Turkish tanks have intensified the bombardment on the building, HDP deputy Faysal Sarıyıldız said on his Twitter account that; “Ceiling of the basement where the wounded remain trapped is about to collapse. If it does, this will the savagest massacre of the century.”
Sarıyıldız said families of those trapped are determined to walk to the building today to get their children out of the basement where they are under a threat of imminent mass murder.
Earlier today, Sarıyıldız talked to Şırnak Governor Ali İhsan Su for the retrieval of casualties through a suspension of the aggression by Turkish forces. The Governor, however, refused the proposal for the dispatchment of Cizre Municipality's ambulance to the scene, and later transfer of the wounded to the state's ambulances on İpekyolu (Silk Road).
The Governor suggested in response that those with heavy injuries walk out of the neighborhood to reach an ambulance that will be sent to the area, which is, however, impossible under the current circumstances and ongoing offensive by state forces.
Sarıyıldız strongly responded to the situation, saying; "If nobody reaches and retrieves the wounded from that basement till this evening, I will go and help them myself. Let them kill me, too. We have come to the point of questioning our humanity."
Cizre People's Council co-chair Mehmet Tunç, who is together with the 28 wounded and slain people in the basement, told that Turkish forces continue to shell the building, which already left the second and third storey of the building collapsed. He added that windows of the basement are all covered with debris, and this makes it very difficult for them to take a breath inside.
According to the reports available, there is no water or any medical means to help the wounded. People in the basement have managed to find some water from inside the building, like from the boiler, but this dirty water has made the wounded sick.