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    The Wider Image: A boy’s arduous steps on prosthetic legs

    Hasan Koc, 58, shows a picture of his son, Mehmet (L), 12, who is in Mersin hospital after having his legs amputated after being trapped in the rubble of a deadly earthquake, and his son Emre (R), 14, who died along with their mother, Hasan's wife, in the earthquake, in the hallway of Mersin hospital in Mersin, Turkey, February 17, 2023. When a devastating earthquake struck Turkey in the early hours of Feb. 6, 2023, the five-storey building in Hatay where Mehmet lived collapsed, burying him in rubble and killing his older brother Emre, 14, and his mother Didem. Mehmet survived. But it took 76 hours before rescuers could pull him from the mound of concrete and twisted metal that remained of his home. Later in hospital, doctors determined that his legs were so badly crushed and injured, that both needed to be amputated just below the hip.  REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
    The Wider Image: A boy’s arduous steps on prosthetic legs
    The Wider Image: A boy’s arduous steps on prosthetic legs

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