A Turkish MP sprinted outside mid-sentence during a TV interview at the moment a powerful earthquake struck.
Lütfi Kaşıkçı was speaking to Bengü Turk TV when the 6.4 magnitude aftershock hit the southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border earlier this morning.
When the tremor began, he ran outside, followed by the camera operator. The camera kept rolling as he ran.
The aftershock came two weeks after a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands of people in the region.
Kaşıkçı had been speaking about the relief efforts on live TV when the aftershock began.
Kaşıkçı later posted a lamentation on Twitter.
“The roads where I park the car every day are split, the buildings of our neighbours collapsed, and the cries of those who were left in the wreckage under the pouring rain still ring in my ears,” he wrote.
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“May God not cause such pain to any of his servants.”
Kaşıkçı represents the Nationalist Movement Party in Turkey’s parliament.
The death toll from the previous quake in Turkey and Syria stands at 47,000.
A few hundred people are estimated to have been killed from the aftershock earlier today, but the destruction wrought by the previous quake will complicate death toll estimates.
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