Turkish rescuers find $2 m abandoned under quake rubble

ALBAWABA - Rescue teams in an earthquake-battered Turkish city found nearly $2 million in a black duffle bag, buried under the debris of a fallen house.

Firefighters recorded the process of recovering the cash money on their cell phone cameras.

They later put the money in a black plastic bag and handed it over to the police in the city of Gaziantep.

The firefighters explained that they were first trying to get people out of the rubble alive, which was their top priority.

On Feb. 6. 2023, a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake and a series of strong aftershocks battered southeast Turkey and northwest Syria, killing more than 46,000 people and injuring thousands of others.